GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA INC.
Volume 18 Number 2—September 1997 GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA INC. PO Box 60 Prospect Tasmania 7250
Patron: Emeritus Professor Michael Roe
Executive: President Mrs Anne Bartlett (03) 6344 5258 Vice President Mr David Harris (03) 6424 5328 Vice President Mr Rex Collins (03) 6431 1113 Executive Secretary Executive Treasurer Ms Sharalyn Walters (03) 6452 2845
Committee: Mrs Elaine Burton Mr Peter Cocker Mrs Dawn Collins Mr John Dare Mrs Isobel Harris Mrs Pat Harris Mrs Denise McNeice Mrs Colleen Read Mrs Rosalie Riley Mrs Dian Smith
By-laws Officer Mrs Denise McNeice (03) 6228 3564 Exchange Journal Coordinator Mrs Thelma McKay (03) 6229 3149 Journal Editor Mrs Rosemary Davidson (03) 6278 2464 Journal Coordinator Mr David Hodgson (03) 6229 7185 Library Coordinator Huon Branch (03) 6264 1335 Members’ Interests Mr Allen Wilson (03) 6244 1837 Membership Secretary Ms Vee Maddock (03) 6243 9592 or 015 311 400 Publications Coordinator Mrs Anne Bartlett (03) 6344 5258 Public Officer Mr Jim Wall (03) 6248 1773 Research Coordinator Mr John Dare (03) 6424 7889 Sales Coordinator Mrs Pat Harris (03) 6344 3951 TAMIOT Coordinator Mrs Betty Calverley (03) 6344 5608 VDL Heritage Index Mr Neil Chick (03) 6228 2083
Branches of the Society Burnie: PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 Devonport: PO Box 587 Devonport Tasmania 7310 Hobart: GPO Box 640 Hobart Tasmania 7001 Huon: PO Box 117 Huonville Tasmania 7109 Launceston: PO Box 1290 Launceston Tasmania 7250
Volume 18 Number 2 September 1997 ISSN 0159 0677
Journal Committee Rosemary Davidson, Cynthia O’Neill, Maurice Appleyard, Jeannine Connors, David Freestun, David Hodgson, Charles Hunt, Lucy Knott, Vee Maddock, Denise McNeice and Kate Ramsay.
Postal Address: PO Box 60 Prospect Tasmania 7250 Email: [email protected]
Contents Editorial ...... 82 Letters to the Editor ...... 83 President’s Message and Meritorious Service Awards ...... 85 President’s Annual Report ...... 86 Griffith’s Valuation of Ireland ...... 87 Annual General Meeting ...... 88 Lilian Watson Family History Award ...... 89 Branch News ...... 90 The Forgotten Women Convicts of Macquarie Harbour, Irene Schaffer . . . 94 Non-state Records, an untapped source, Mary Ramsay ...... 99 A Background to Early Judaism in Tasmania, Tom Schlesinger ...... 102 The Promised Land, Arch Flanagan ...... 105 All in the Family, Maria Brandl ...... 109 Van Diemen’s Land and Norfolk Island Interest Group ...... 112 Telling the Sarah Island Story, Hamish Maxwell-Stuart ...... 112 What’s in a Name? Wayne Smith ...... 113 Did You Know? Wayne Smith ...... 115 Dover, Port Esperence Burial Places—Part 1, Norm Beechey ...... 116 Genes on Screen, Vee Maddock ...... 118 Dear ... and A Little of Rita’s Story ...... 119 Tasmaniana Library, State Library of Tasmania, New Acquisitions . . . . . 121 Lost, Stolen or Strayed ... and Found! ...... 124 The Elizabeth Simpson Award ...... 126 Book Reviews ...... 128 Overseas Exchange Journals ...... 129 Australian Exchange Journals ...... 130 From the Exchange Journals, Thelma McKay ...... 131 Coming Events ...... 134 Projects Report ...... 136 Library Notes ...... 138 Society Sales ...... 142
Deadline dates for contributions: 1 January, 1 April, 1 July and 1 October
GST Inc. Hobart Branch are hosting a seminar by If you will be in Sydney at the beginning Janet Reakes of January 1998, check out the exhibition Thursday, 16 October 1997 of ‘Love Tokens’ to be held at the Hyde 7.00 p.m. Park Barracks Museum, Queens Square Glenorchy Masonic Centre Macquarie Street. It should start about Peltro Street, opposite the Police Station 5 January. These tokens, known as The topic is transportation tokens, were given by convicts to their loved ones as keepsakes Certificates & Census English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish before they were transported to Australia. certificates and census records They are very rare, and few knew of their How to access them, what’s on them, how to existence. The owner of the collection use them—availability, money saving ideas. has over 100, many of which were It will be a 2½ hour seminar with a cost of $15.00 per head engraved on the 1797 copper cartwheel penny. The quality and style differ— Book and Stationery Stall some only have a name and date while Janet is happy to answer questions, even before the seminar, so be early! others have poems and messages. The Book now to secure your place! journal committee are trying to obtain a list of the convicts, as it is unlikely the For further information contact the secretary Cynthia O’Neill (03) 6228 3175 exhibition will travel to Tasmania. We or will be interested to hear from anyone email:[email protected] who gets to see them! In each journal we aim to include all new members and their interests, and together with regular news from state, The opinions expressed in this journal are branches and libraries, it is a constant not necessarily those of the editorial balancing act to stay within the weight committee nor of the Genealogical Society constraints of posting the journal. of Tasmania Inc. Responsibility rests with However, we hope that the range of the author of a submitted article and we do subjects in this issue will be of interest. not intentionally print inaccurate inform- Congratulations to Anne Bartlett of ation. The society cannot vouch for the Launceston branch, the previous journal accuracy of offers for services or goods that editor, who is now the new president of appear in the journal, or be responsible for our society. We wish her well in her new the outcome of any contract entered into role. with an advertiser. The editor reserves the Rosemary Davidson right to edit, abridge or reject material.
Cover: © The contents of Tasmanian Ancestry are View overlooking Morris’ Store & Oyster subject to the provisions of the Copyright Bay, Swansea, Tasmania Act and may not be reproduced without Pencil drawing © Greg Waddle See ‘Non-state Records, an untapped resource’ by written permission of the editor and author. Mary Ramsay, page 99, with reference to the Clark family and William Knibb Morris.
82 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
3 April 1997 some other States, and there are many I am writing to say how pleased I was to extracts from the Tasmanian Crime see the March issue of the Journal Report [the title of the Tasmanian Police devoted to police records - a fascinating Gazette] within them. ... There are nearly source for the genealogist, and vastly 10,000 entries, and some contain underused. Congratulations on a most information which it would be hard to interesting issue. locate anywhere else. For example: Could I just point out however, that the In December 1880 Simon Finn of extracts from the Victoria Police Gazette Hamilton Tasmania sought information which I forwarded, and which were on his brother John, who arrived in published in 1987–88 in the Journal, did Melbourne per ship Somersetshire in not relate to former Tasmanians who had January 1875. joined the Victorian police force, but In July 1879 the American Consul, on simply to Tasmanians who were behalf of Charles E. Green of New York, mentioned, for various reasons, in the sought information on Merrill Green, Gazettes. who arrived in Hobart in the whaling Those Tasmanians who did apply to join vessel Kingston in 1846 and was the Victorian police force, and whose imprisoned for neglect of duty. letters of application have survived, are In October 1869 information was sought given in my index to Candidates for the of George Hanbury Learmonth, a native Victoria Police Part One 1852–1872. of Launceston, who was last heard of The Hobart branch has a copy of this over two years before, as being on his microfiche. I have recently completed way to the Peak Down diggings, Parts Two and Three of this Index, and Queensland. further Tasmanians, including police In many cases the original letter of members, are included. For example, enquiry and the subsequent police Daniel Burke wrote from Moriarty in investigation. has survived, and is held 1893; he had been in the force seven within police correspondence files, but is years, but ‘there are so many Sub not always easily located. A copy of our Inspectors above me with Political book Cops and Robbers. A guide to Influence at their backs that I see no researching 19th century police and chance of promotion for many years ... ’ criminal records in Victoria Australia is, I enclose details as to the availability and I think, also held in the Hobart branch cost of these fiche. library, and this gives details of how to I have also just completed an Index to access the correspondence files. Tasmanians in the Victoria Police I hope this additional information is of Gazette 1853–1893. This gives the name use to your members. of the person and the date the information appeared in the Gazette. The Gazettes Yours sincerely, are freely available in Victoria, unlike Helen D. Harris, OAM
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LETTERS continued 12 May 1997 Thank you very much for printing the The Mercury ‘A Triple Wedding?’ on page 247 of 27 January 1925 Volume 17 Number 4—March 1997. The last wedding, Isaac Henry Biggs Draper who married Annie Hodgins, was FIFTY YEARS AGO. of great interest to me. Annie Hodgins (From “The Mercury” of was the sister of my Great Grandfather, January 27, 1875.) Adam Hodgins of Somerset House, Elizabeth Street, Hobart. Annie was born The trumpery offences which are on 2 October, 1832 in Barnane, County occasionally brought before the Tipperary Ireland, and migrated together magistrates at the City Police with her parents Thomas and Elizabeth Court are really laughable. The (nee Lee) Hodgins and several of her time of the bench of magistrates, siblings around 1840. the whole of the court staff, and the Unfortunately I do not know what reporters is wasted over such happened to Annie after her marriage to charges as that of stealing a Isaac Biggs and can find no further threepenny walking-stick, a penny references either to her or to her family. I roll, and other articles of would be most grateful therefore, if any insignificant value. At the Court other members of the society are yesterday a poor woman was following the Biggs family, if they would solemnly charged with having be so kind as to share their knowledge stolen from the Queen’s Domain a with me. branch of a tree, valued at 6d., Interestingly, Annie’s father Thomas was which the unfortunate woman had a District Police Constable, first at evidently picked up and Pontville and later at Spring Bay where appropriated for the purpose of he died after an illness lasting eight days. having a fire in an otherwise Therefore I was most interested to read in cheerless home. In consequence of the same volume of your magazine the a flaw in the information the very good article relating to the police in the early days and I was therefore able to woman was discharged. It must gain some information relating to Thomas not be thought that we advocate the Hodgins from the Tasmanian Archives. cause of these poor people for stealing, but we think that in such Your magazine proved most helpful to me at this time! trumpery cases a caution would meet all requirements. Thank you for the hard work which obviously has gone into this publication.
Yours sincerely, Mary McKinlay (Mrs) PO Box 166 Ulverstone Tasmania 7315 Joyce O’Shea
84 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE CERTIFICATES
IRSTLY congratulations to Devonport OF MERITORIOUS FBranch for a successful Annual SERVICE General Meeting. Although not present for the whole weekend, the various reports I have heard were all complimentary. Out of HE following members were awarded the town members were grateful for the T Certificate of Meritorious Service in opportunity to use the Branch Library. recognition of their long and dedicated service to the society and genealogy. During the Annual General Meeting the nominations of six members to receive Merle Fitzmaurice, Devonport Branch for the ‘Certificate of Meritorious Service’ long service on the branch committee and as were accepted by the members of the Branch Librarian. society. These certificates will be Audrey Hudspeth, Hobart Branch, for presented at functions organised by their service to the society as Journal Editor for ten branch during the ensuing months. I years and for long service to the Hobart would like to thank the recipients for their Branch as a Library Assistant and other dedicated work for the society. services to the Society, history and genealogy. I would like to take this opportunity to Theo Sharples, Hobart Branch, for her work remind members that they should be in establishing the Society’s Library, later the considering their nominations for the Hobart Branch Library and for long service as 1998 awards. All that is required to Hobart Branch Librarian and then as a Library Assistant and participant in Branch projects nominate a person is for two members to and activities. send a nomination to the state secretary, including a resumé of service the award is John Grunnell, Launceston Branch, for to recognise. Nominations must be service to the Society and Launceston Branch, received before 1 February. as State Secretary and President, member of the Congress Committee and Launceston At the May executive meeting it was Branch Committee Member, President and decided to use the society’s surplus funds Treasurer. to purchase a number of records Thelma Grunnell, Launceston Branch, for published on microfiche. The following service to the Society and Launceston Branch, sets are being purchased: as State Secretary and member of the Probate Calenders for UK 1858–1942 Congress Committee and Launceston Branch St Catherine’s House Indexes 1923–1942 Committee member, President and Secretary. GRO Indexes of Overseas BDMs Old Parochial Records, Scotland Anne Bartlett, Launceston Branch, for 1881 Census Indexes for Scotland service to the Society and Launceston Branch Griffith’s Valuations for Ireland as Journal Editor for five years, State The above records will be circulated Publications and Sales Co-ordinator, Vice- among the branches in the same manner President, member of the Congress currently used for the St Catherine’s Committee and editor of Local and Family History Sources in Tasmania. Service and at House Indexes. This is a significant Branch level Publications Co-ordinator, Vice purchase and all members with ancestors President and President. in the British Isles should benefit. Anne Bartlett
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PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL REPORT 1997 N presenting this, my third and final there have been some very difficult times report as president of the society, I due to illness, personal and family would first like to express my problems, yet in all cases other members I gratitude to Dawn Collins, our have rallied to help and I find this spirit secretary for the last three years. most encouraging for the continuing Regrettably, Dawn is unable to be with us operation of the society. today due to other commitments but I International recognition for the work of would like to record that without Dawn’s Anne Bartlett and her team of helpers efforts during the last three years my task who prepared our journal for five years would have been a great deal more difficult was received in the form of notification and time consuming. from the Federation of Family History I would also like to thank especially our Societies that Anne’s last journal (June treasurer Sharalyn Walters who came 1996) had been judged runner up in the forward after the last annual meeting to prestigious Elizabeth Simpson Award. volunteer her services to fill the vacant Congratulations to Anne and all her team. treasurer’s position. As a relative new- On a sadder note I must report the comer to the society I think the water retirement due to continuing ill health of may have been deeper than Sharalyn the Federation’s founding chairman and anticipated but I am pleased to report we only president, Colonel Iain Swinnerton. haven’t had to send out the rubber duckie. Iain, who is well known to many of us It has been very pleasing to see some new from his visits here in 1991 and 1994 will faces around the table at executive retire formally in September. meetings during the year but equally the At the national level we have had continued presence of familiar faces lent considerable interaction with AFFHO, an air of stability to our deliberations. currently based in West Australia, and From time to time all of our branches run whilst the executive has not always into snags or find themselves facing a agreed with the changes proposed by crisis in one form or another. Despite AFFHO Council we are always given a this, all branch presidents have given very fair hearing through Alison Brain, our positive reports on the activities of their appointed representative. respective branches with all being The AFFHO Census working party involved with projects and/or public- chaired by Nick Vine Hall has been well ations. All branches too have tried hard supported by this society and can claim to finalise their TAMIOT work, at least some of the credit for the establishment as far as this can ever be finalised, so as of a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry to leave the way clear for the final into the treatment of census forms. preparation of a new edition of the Written submissions to this committee TAMIOT microfiche. must be made before 15 July 1997. Circulated today for later tabling are the During the year Denise McNeice has individual reports of most of our accepted appointment as the society’s coordinators. As these reports indicate,
86 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 By-Laws Officer, a position which had GRIFFITH’S VALUATION become necessary to review and update OF IRELAND our operational by-laws to keep pace with our changing needs. Thanks Denise for civil servant, Richard Griffiths, was putting your hand up again. A responsible for the listing and A major decision made this year with the assessment for taxation of all but the unanimous approval of all branches was smallest properties throughout Ireland, to invest state-held funds into research covering the period 1848-64. Prior to material which would be beyond the this, Tithe Applotment Books were financial capacity of any one branch. compiled for the period 1823–37 which Approximately $18,000 has been determined the amount in tithes that allocated to this end, and as the material occupiers of agricultural property should comes to hand it will start to circulate pay to the established Church of Ireland. around the branches in a similar fashion The Griffith’s Valuation was originally to the very successful circulation of the St based on the Poor Law Divisions, as the Catherine’s House microfiche. revenue raised was to fund workhouses, The executive has also moved to publish usually located in the major market towns. our annual Members’ Interests lists on Griffith’s Valuation shows the amount microfiche as well as hard copy, and to and annual valuation of property held by supply these microfiche to all societies each person, and includes names of with whom we exchange journals. This lessors. It names the head of the will greatly expand the areas in which household, male or female, and gives the your individual research interests will be townland and description of the made known, as the society exchanges property—land, buildings, domestic and journals with a large number of societies commercial, even ruins. both here in Australia and overseas. In descending order of size, the five civil First steps have been taken to simplify and ecclesiastical subdivisions of Ireland and standardise the financial record keep- —the provinces, Ulster, Connaught, ing requirements at branch and state level Leinster and Munster—are further divided and I fervently hope that this process will into 32 counties. These are subdivided into proceed further in the coming year. over 300 baronies, then over 2,400 I believe that this last year has been the parishes and further into 62,205 townlands. most personally rewarding of my term in The names occurring in both the Tithe office and I sincerely thank all those Applotment Survey books and Griffith’s members who at all levels have given so Valuation Survey have been indexed for generously of their time, advice and most each county in the surname index importantly friendship. compiled by the National Library of In vacating the president’s chair I am Ireland. C. O. accepting appointment to a chair further [This is part of the purchase of research down the table from which I will be able material made by the state executive for the to offer my support to the incoming benefit of all branches. See page 138 this president and executive. issue for circulation information—Ed.] David Harris.
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 87 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Lucas Hotel, Latrobe 21 June 1997
N a cold and foggy O morning, members and visitors from all over the state arrived at the Lucas Hotel, Latrobe for the 1997 Annual General Meeting. A blazing wood fire was a welcome sight and it was a pleasure to meet friends, and put faces to familiar names. Our patron, Professor Michael Roe, announced the winner of the 1997 Lilian Watson Photo: Denise McNeice Family History award for John Meehan, winner of the 1997 Lilian Watson Family home-produced book which History Award with Audrey Weeding and June Ball who was presented to John helped with research. Meehan for his work entitled From Shere to Eternity. 1998 LILIAN WATSON FAMILY Nominations for six HISTORY AWARD Meritorious Service awards HE Lilian Watson Family History Award for were read and accepted. They T 1998 will be for a manuscript. A manuscript is were Anne Bartlett, Merle defined for the award as a work hand-written or Fitzmaurice, Thelma Grunnell, typed, not reproduced for any manner of sale or John Grunnell, Audrey public distribution at the closing date of the award Hudspeth and Theo Sharples. acceptances. It is the fore-runner of any type of book. Whilst a significant Tasmanian content is required, the The after-dinner speaker, history need not be wholly Tasmanian. It must be the local identity Mr Ivan Eade, story of a family, not of an individual person. entertained with an amusing and at times risqué mono- The competition is open to the general public as well logue and those attending as to members of the society. The winner will be won’t forget the raspberries! selected by an independent judging panel appointed by the society. Thank you to Devonport branch for an enjoyable Closing date for entries is 31 December 1997. weekend and for opening their Further information about the 1998 award and entry library on the Sunday forms are available from the Genealogical Society of morning to visiting members. Tasmania Inc. Branch Libraries or by applying to the ♦ Family History Award Coordinator, GPO Box 640 Hobart TAS 7001. ♦
88 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 WINNER OF 1997 LILIAN WATSON FAMILY HISTORY AWARD
FROM SHERE TO ETERNITY When awarding the Lilian Watson Family History Award to John J. Meehan at the 1997 AGM, Michael Roe sketched the contents of the prize-winning work, From Shere to Eternity, A History of the Moody Family of Van Diemen’s Land. The following is a synopsis of Professor Roe’s statement.
THE MOODY FAMILY: PIONEERS AND PRIZE-INSPIRERS
HE judges were unanimous in streets’ intersection being his base from giving first place to John and my the outset and in time his empire. He own voice was strongest in that traded in booze. Atop all this, Moody T preference. That reflected my bought a farm from one of the Norfolk being an historian rather than a Island grantees along Sandy Bay. genealogist, for the particular virtue of With business booming and a this study is its presentation of John’s Conditional Pardon secured, James forebear, James Moody, as remarkable married Ann Barnes (herself probably in his historical import. of Norfolk Island background) in 1834. Born in 1782, convicted in 1808 (on She had just turned 30, and one two-year old charges of highway wonders how the two earlier spent their robbery and assault), transported to sexual energies and how rare it was for Sydney 1810, re-transported to so mature a couple to begin a family Newcastle in 1812, Moody was sent which soon numbered five children. So down to Hobart in 1812. Tom Davey doing suggests much confidence in then ruled as Lieutenant-Governor of themselves and the society around Van Diemen’s Land: our hero lived them. until 1858, into the era of self- In the late 1840s James donated the governing Tasmania. land on which ultimately rose St Moody brushed with colonial authority Stephen’s Church of England, Sandy more than once, not gaining his Bay: what a classic example of Conditional Pardon until 1833, but ever respectability-winning! Ann died in showed himself equipped and 1852, and thereafter family matters enthusiastic to take advantage of the dimmed. The next generation enjoyed opportunities which Van Diemen’s more advantages than their parents, but Land offered in its youthful hey-day. less opportunity. Withal, most had Moody was a carpenter, perhaps too a their progeny, providing the materials rope-maker. While never literate, he for John Meehan to tell their story, developed business and property which he does with skill and affection. investments, the Liverpool-Barrack It is worthy of James and Ann. ♦
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 89 BRANCH NEWS
Burnie Treasurer President Doug Forrest (03) 6431 1882 Mr Rex Collins 6431 1113 Secretary Ray Hyland (03) 6431 7404 Research PO Box 748 Burnie Tasmania 7320 Mrs Sybil Russell 6433 0245 Following the AGM in Committee Mrs Judy Cocker 6435 4103 April a question and Mr Peter Cocker 6435 4103 answer session was held, Miss Vernice Dudman 6431 1378 together with general Mrs Shirley Medwin 6433 3904 library research. State Delegates The highlight of the Mrs Dawn Collins 6431 1113 meeting in May was a Mr Peter Cocker 6435 4103 fascinating talk by Mr Fred Reid on early Alternate Delegate shipping and ships which came to Mr Ray Hyland 6431 7404 Australia and to Tasmania. Shipping has been a lifetime interest and hobby for Mr Reid and the dedication shown in this Devonport work was seen to be very similar to the President Sue McCreghan (03) 6428 2288 Secretary Isobel Harris (03) 6424 5328 work undertaken by genealogists. PO Box 587 Devonport Tasmania 7310 At the June meeting, many members The topic for the April provided information about their house meeting was land grants names and the historical value for genea- and tracing ownership logical research. This was followed by a of land. The discussion question and answer session for members was led by Christine seeking help with their research. Morris, Glenice Brau- Fourteen members of the branch are cur- man and Rosie Marshall rently attending a six week TAFE course who gave details of ways of locating the on Basic Internet Skills. The course is land which ancestors once occupied. structured with a leaning towards geneal- Kerrie Whitely was the guest speaker at ogy research and all attending have found the May meeting. She spoke about the the experience quite absorbing. indexing project and the photographic We are pleased to have Peter Crocker as a display which was the result of the new delegate on the State Executive this acquisition by the Devonport City year. We know that Peter’s contribution Council of the negatives and other to the executive will be of good value. photography material from the Robinson Committee members for 1997–98 & Sons Studio. President Craig Broadfield’s subject for the June Mr Doug Forrest 6431 1882 meeting was the Ulverstone Local Vice President History Museum and the records which Mrs Dawn Collins 6431 1113 are available. After a brief history of the Secretary Central Coast area he showed examples Mr Ray Hyland 6431 7404
90 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 of the photographic holdings, manu- Hobart scripts and the information that can be President Bryce Ward (03) 6243 7884 accessed by computer. Secretary Cynthia O’Neill (03) 6228 3175 The branch announces the completion of GPO Box 640 Hobart Tasmania 7001 two further indexes. They are The For the past year, the ‘Personal Announcements from The indecision about our Advocate’ and cover the years 1995 and library lease has been an 1996. They have been published in two inhibiting factor on long yearly volumes and are available from the term planning. No branch at $15.00 each plus postage. decision has yet been made, but we have been It was a pleasure to host the 1997 Annual informed that our present lease has been General Meeting which was held at the extended until the end of the year. By Lucas Hotel, Latrobe. Congratulations to then, the Council will have developed its Merle Fitzmaurice whose nomination for new policy for leases or will have been a meritorious Service Award was swallowed up in an amalgamation. accepted. The raffle conducted by the Whatever happens, we hope that we will branch was won by John Dare. be able to negotiate an appropriate lease for our present premises. Committee members for 1997–98 Branch monthly meetings are continuing President to attract good attendances and Maree Mrs Sue McCreghan 6428 2288 Ring keeps on finding interesting speak- Vice President ers for them. The meetings are always Mr John Dare 6424 7889 followed by happy half hours around the Secretary supper table which often continue until Mrs Isobel Harris 6424 5328 lights out. Many thanks to Nola Ward Treasurer and Pam Jensen for making these social Mr David Harris 6424 5328 sessions possible. The final session each Librarian month extends into the car park where the Ms G. Brauman 6424 7577 computer enthusiasts continue their discussions until the chill defeats them. Research The recording of the inscriptions at Mrs Frances Yates 6425 3236 Cornelian Bay is almost complete thanks TAMIOT to the excellent organisation of Les Mr Adrian Loone 6426 1470 Young, some Sunday Working Bees and Committee in particular the weekly sessions of Mrs D. Grant 6424 6367 Thelma and Ray McKay and their small Mrs Barbara King 6425 2689 band of helpers. Les has areas which Mrs Rosie Marshall 6426 7334 need checking and Mike Howe has Ms Christine Morris 6427 8461 records to be entered on computer if you Miss Louise Richardson 6424 4930 need a job, or are lonely. Les is also State Delegates working on a plan to transcribe the crematorium records—stay tuned. Mr John Dare 6424 7889 Thelma can also use more helpers in her Mrs Isobel Harris 6424 5328 Ms Christine Morris 6427 8461
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 91 Monday checking and recording group. If Huon these don’t suit you, then talk to Colleen President Betty Fletcher (03) 6264 1546 Read about how you may be able to help Secretary Elaine Burton (03) 6264 1335 on a library project. PO Box 117 Huonville TAS 7109 If you don’t make our other meetings, try Our branch is pro- to come along on 18 November for our ceeding to index the old Christmas break up. We hope to have some entertainment related to our Huon and Derwent interests and our Christmas Supper. Times newspapers. We September will bring Miranda Morris to are organising a pro- our meeting to talk on ‘Looking at gressive dinner to raise
Women’s Heritage’. In October we will money to help purchase have Anne Killalea on ‘Polio in the 1930s material. We have purchased the latest in Tasmania’ and November Christmas O’Shea indexes and several others. The breakup—to be confirmed—Riverside library attendance is improving. Denise Arts: Historical Fashion Parade and McNeice came down and put the Christmas carols. TAMIOT records on the computer for us Don’t forget that we have many records to recheck. We have been busy working in the library which can help you. We out the cost of our library holdings and hope to see you there. have passed it on to the state treasurer. Committee members for 1997–98 The following officers were elected at our President April AGM. Mr Bryce Ward 6243 7884 Vice President Committee members for 1997–98 Mrs Colleen Read 6244 4527 President Secretary Mrs Shirley (Betty) Fletcher 6264 1546 Mrs Cynthia O’Neill 6228 3175 Vice President Treasurer Mrs Gwen Burton 6264 1245 Mrs Jeannine Connors 6228 2836 Secretary Librarian Mrs Elaine Burton 6264 1335 Mr Maurice Lansdell 6223 2226 Treasurer Committee Mrs Joan Balmer 6266 4260 Mrs Anne Hay 6244 2984 Librarian Mr David Hodgson 6229 7185 Mrs Rosalie Riley 6264 1036 Mr Michael Howe 6244 7062 Assistant Librarian Mr Charles Hunt 6244 6943 Mrs Shelley Oates 6266 4461 Ms Vee Maddock 6243 9592 Research Mrs Maree Ring 6272 9650 Mrs Shelley Oates 6266 4461 Mr Leslie Young 6243 9131 TAMIOT State Delegates Mrs Colleen Read 6244 4527 Mrs Shirley (Betty) Fletcher 6264 1546 Mrs Denise McNeice 6228 3564 State Delegates Alternate Delegate Mrs Rosalie Riley 6264 1036 Mrs Anne Hay 6244 2984 Mrs Elaine Burton 6264 1335 Alternate Delegate Mrs Shirley (Betty) Fletcher 6264 1546
92 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 Launceston Programme dates: President Jenny Gill (03) 6331 1150 October 9 (Thursday) at Launceston City Secretary Thelma Grunnell Library, second floor, 6.30–8.30 p.m., (03) 6331 2145 ‘Genealogy on the Internet’ led by Aileen PO Box 1290 Launceston TAS 7250 Pike and Robyn Conway. It is with regret that we November 4 ‘Early recollections of a record the passing in Launceston retailer’, Mr Charles Rose. the same week in June December 2 ‘From Land’s End to John of two of our long- O’Groats on foot’, Mr David Lindsay. standing members, Mrs Committee members for 1997–98 Jean Jones and Mrs President Jean Peck. Our sincere Miss Jenny Gill 6331 1150 sympathy to Alan and Roy and their Vice President respective families. Mr R. Alan Leighton 6326 2318 Hurray for volunteers! At our AGM in Correspondence Secretary May we were pleased to have some Mrs Thelma Grunnell 6331 2145 action from the floor and have recycled a Minute Secretary previous treasurer, Geoff Rapley, into a Mrs Judith Whish-Wilson 6331 6017 committee member and Alan Leighton is Membership Secretary now vice president. At the last executive Ms Helen Stuart 6331 9175 meeting Anita Swan, a research team and Treasurer library duty member, was appointed as Mr John Grunnell 6331 2145 committee member. So we are now Librarian functioning at full capacity. Members Mrs Alma Ranson 6394 4404 informed and entertained the meeting Assistant Librarian and Sales with newspaper references of historical Mrs Dian Smith 6397 3330 and family history content. TAMIOT On a very chilly June night we were Mrs Betty Calverly 6344 5608 delighted to be joined by three members Publications from Burnie branch and some members Mrs Anne Bartlett 6344 5258 of the Launceston Historical Society for Committee Rhonda Hamilton’s talk on Launceston Mr Geoff Rapley 6344 2118 photographers to which photos were Mrs Anita Swan 6326 5778 brought for possible dating. Miss Jan Welsh 6331 3648 Mr Joe Stephens 6344 5969 We have secured more suitable premises State Delegates for the branch meetings which will now Mrs Pat Harris 6344 3951 be held at the St John’s Parish Centre. Mrs Dian Smith 6397 3330 As a fund raising project and to support Alternate Delegate the wool industry we are having a sock Mrs Thelma Grunnell 6331 2145 sale drive.
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 93 THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN CONVICTS OF MACQUARIE HARBOUR 1821-1826 Irene Schaffer
ACQUARIE Harbour was the The records state there were eight convict first penal settlement to be women in the first party.1 At first, only established in Van Diemen’s six were located. The 1821–22 Muster at M Land. It existed for twelve Macquarie Harbour shows there were ten years before closure in 1833 and was later convict women. Four of these did not reopened in 1846 for one year. arrive in Hobart until after the two ships The main reason for choosing such a left for Macquarie Harbour, therefore the remote place was to confine re-sentenced muster would have been taken mid 1822.2 convicts (mostly for absconding) to The missing two were later discovered in where escape was considered impossible. other records. The 110 persons who went with the first So why were they sent to Macquarie party were made up of the officers and Harbour? I can find no official document men of the 48th Regiment who were that explains why they were sent with this dispatched from Port Dalrymple, along first party. In Philip Tardiff’s book with four soldiers’ wives and their eleven Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous children, forty-four convicts of bad Girls, Convict Women in Van Diemen’s character, eleven convict tradesmen (who Land 1803–1829, we can follow each of were promised their Ticket of Leave on these women. What it does not show, completion of work), the pilot James except for three, was that they went to Lucas and eight convict women. Macquarie Harbour, either because this The party left Hobart aboard the Sophia information was not been entered on their and the Prince Leopold 12 December conduct records, or the M.H. was mis- taken for a person’s initials, not a place. 1821. It is not known how many of the party the Sophia carried. Being a brig of Their crimes, after they arrived in Hobart, only sixty tons, (the same size as the were no worse than many others under Lady Nelson) she was restricted in the sentence at that time. A large number of amount she could take on board. early convict women married soon after they arrived. Only two married before After battling bad weather for three they were transported to Macquarie weeks the Sophia arrived at the mouth of Harbour. Macquarie Harbour. The Prince Leopold From studying their conduct records it was swept out to sea and eventually seems that some were connected with the turned up at Port Dalrymple. The Sophia, hospital when they first arrived in Hobart. because of her narrow draft, was able to The 1821–22 Muster refers to them as ‘in negotiate the narrow passage, (later the hospital’ although it is not clear if it known as Hells Gates), after unloading meant as a nurse or patient. Some were the ship. Once across the bar she reloaded later recorded as not doing their hospital and made her way to Sarah Island. duties at Macquarie Harbour.
94 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 After the Sophia unloaded the party at information has been found about two, Sarah Island she returned to Hobart, this Elizabeth Bannister and Maria Allen. time taking only four days, arriving Details from the lives of thirteen of the 7 February 1822. The Prince Leopold, in early women follow. the meantime, left Port Dalrymple 10 Others were sent later, including Jane February and made her way back to Sarah Davis, neé Cropper, born on Norfolk Island. It is possible the Sophia took the Island and tried in Hobart 1824, who was additional four convict women, who had sent with her husband to Sarah Island for arrived a few weeks earlier on the receiving stolen sheep. Their third child Providence, when she again left for was born there in 1825. Macquarie Harbour on 23 February. The First Convict Women at What sort of a life did these women lead Macquarie Harbour in this remote area? A hard day-to-day [ ] Number in Philip Tardiff’s book existence, not only for these convict ( ) Police number women, but for the soldiers’ wives and 1 [220] Sarah Griffin (25) aged 19 was their children. It would have been the sentenced to 7 years at Nottingham in worst possible existence in a place that 1817 for larceny. The surgeon on the had no comparison in the whole country. Friendship in 1818 described her as a It could almost be compared with being prostitute who was filthy and lazy. She shipwrecked on a desert island. was sent with fifty-four other women from the Friendship to Hobart on the From glimpses of their conduct records Duke of Wellington in 1818. She was in some of the convict women had problems trouble within a month. She married with the overseer John Anderson and William Wordey Silister (Sillitoe) in assistant surgeon Crockett, resulting in 1818 and continued her bad habits until two of them being placed in the stocks for 1824, when she received her Ticket of two hours each day for six days. This Leave. There is a gap on her record from took place in May, when the winter days July 1821 until May 1822 when she is would have made it a very cold and charged with raising scandalous false uncomfortable time for them. Nine reports prejudical to the character of John inches of rain are often recorded during Anderson, Overseer, along with Margaret the month of May. The iron collar was Morgan. They were both sentenced to also used for some crimes. wear an iron collar and sit in the stocks at Macquarie Harbour. She was also All of these convicts (except Margaret sentenced for disobeying the assistant Keefe), were returned to Hobart by 1824. surgeon in leaving the hospital at Mac- Most of them, once their sentences were quarie Harbour on 23 December 1822. completed, disappeared from the records. 2 [443] Margaret Morgan (27), aged Two died while still under sentence. 16, was sentenced to 7 years at Antrim in Sarah Griffin died in 1832. The remain- August 1817 for picking pockets. She der, except Margaret Lucas (Keefe) were arrived in New South Wales on the still in trouble up to 1850. Elizabeth in 1818, and in Hobart on the Altogether, I have found fifteen convict Princess Charlotte in 1820. From her women who were sent to Macquarie conduct record, she was to sit in the Harbour in the early years. Limited
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 95 stocks for six hours for neglect of duty at sent to Macquarie Harbour and was listed the hospital in February 1821. On 7 May on the 1822 Muster at Macquarie 1822 she was sentenced to wear an iron Harbour. This large gap of seven years at collar for 7 days for raising a scandalous Macquarie Harbour is not recorded on her false report prejudicial to the character of record, nor is there any indication that she John Anderson, Overseer, at M.H. was in trouble while serving her sentence (Macquarie Harbour). By May 1823 she there. She received her free certificate in was back in Hobart and continued to 1828. It was at this most unlikely place commit all sorts of crimes, even that her life changed dramatically. After breaching the Dog Licensing Act by having a dog without a licence. Poor her arrival, or maybe on the voyage to Margaret died at the Female House of Macquarie Harbour, she met and later Correction in 1832, aged only 31 years. lived with the pilot James Hunt Lucas. Their first son was born at Macquarie 3 [444] Mary O’Hara (or Hare) (37H) Harbour in 1824. The couple married at aged 15, was sentenced to 7 years at Sarah Island on 3 March 1829. James Antrim in March 1817 for picking pockets. She was also on the Elizabeth Hunt Lucas was the son of Lt James Hunt and the Princess Charlotte. Her conduct Lucas and Sarah Griggs, a convict. He record begins in April 1823, making a was born on Norfolk Island in 1794. The gap of two years from when she arrived. couple remained at Macquarie Harbour Again it seems that she was sent to until late 1829 when, with their four sons, Macquarie Harbour, although it is not on they transferred to the Derwent River, her conduct record. On the 1823 Muster where another six children were added to she is the servant of Mrs Nairn at Coal the family. James died at St Mary’s River. In 1826 a felony case against her Hospital Hobart, after an accident at sea was dismissed. There was a child born to in 1853. Margaret survived for another a Mary O’Hara in Launceston in 1844. twenty years. She died at her home at No further information. Kingston Tasmania in 1872, aged 75. 4 [458] Margaret Keefe (25) aged 25 5 [493] Mary Ann Furze (12) aged was sentenced at Wexford in 1818 for 24–28, was sentenced to 7 years at shoplifting. Arriving in Sydney on the Middlesex for Larceny from a person. Lord Wellington in January 1820, sent to She arrived in Sydney on the Janus in Hobart on the Princess Charlotte, she 1820 and Hobart on the Princess was at the hospital in Hobart in 1820. Charlotte in 1820. In 1821 she abscond- Margaret led a lively life of crime soon ed into the woods without a pass for after her arrival in Hobart—breaking and several months and was sentenced to be entering, assault and receiving. For the sent to the territory for the the remainder latter she was sentenced to Newcastle in of her sentence. Because she was on the February 1821. However, she was again 1821–22 Muster it appears she was sent in court for absconding later in 1821, so it to Macquarie Harbour, where she appears that she was not sent. remained until 1824. In May 1824 she Margaret is the only one whom I was able was sent to solitary confinement for to fully trace. Although there is nothing disobeying orders and spent three days on mentioned on her conduct record, she was bread and water. In August 1824 she was
96 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 in the hospital at Macquarie Harbour and shared a hut with Thomas Allmet, the was charged with destroying the fresh convict hut keeeper who was also a water kept for hospital use. (There was hospital attendant, and the overseer. This no permanant water supply on any of the island contained a wooden penitentiary, islands). By 1828 she was in Hobart with with the hospital nearby. Allmet the last entry in May 1831. Two years later questioned the soldiers as to how they she received her Ticket of Leave. A Mary had came onto the island, and if they had Ann Furse married Benjamin Horton in a pass. They admitted they didn’t. 1830. No further information. Allmet then went to make a signal to 6 [558] Margaret Graham (22) aged Sarah Island (half a mile away) but they 24, was sentenced to 7 years at stopped him. They did not want to be Cumberland in 1820 for larceny. The reported as they had been given the boat surgeon’s report from the Morley, which by the mate off the brig to go fishing. arrived at Hobart in 1820, was very good. The soldiers left, but not before In August 1821 she was sentenced to be threatening that, as the women had beds, sent to the territory for stealing from her they may stay on or come back later.3 master. There is a gap in her record from The soldiers were later sent to Hobart on 1821 until 1824. This appears to have charges of repeated misconduct which been the time she spent at Macquarie were dismissed for lack of evidence. Harbour, as she is on the 1821–22 There were three Elizabeth Chambers Muster. Back in Hobart in 1824 she who married—(1) Thomas Miller at continued to abscond from her master and Pittwater in 1826; (2) George Spooner in the Female Factory until 1828 when she 1834 and (3) John Kelly in 1836. married John Homer in Launceston. She 8 [218] Mary Ann Corbett/Cahill/ was still in trouble until 1845. No further Dalany (36) aged 21, sentenced to 7 information. years in Dublin in May 1815 for forging 7 [220] Judith Chambers (6) age 21, bank notes. She arrived in NSW on the sentenced to 7 years at Wexford in 1815 Alexander in 1816 and was sent to Hobart for stealing apparel. Arriving Sydney on on the Kangaroo in April 1816. In June the Alexander in 1816, she left for Hobart 1816 she married John Simmons. From on the Kangaroo in 1816. From May 1816 until November 1821 Mary Ann 1817 until July 1821 she was in trouble, was in trouble for receiving, assault, mainly for drinking. On the 1821–22 drinking and abusing, resulting in the loss muster she is at New Norfolk. Then a of her Ticket of Leave and being sent to gap until April 1823. From 1825 until H. M. Gaol. Nothing further on her 1829 she continued to get into trouble in conduct record. She was, however, men- Hobart. In sworn statements taken at tioned as being at Macquarie Harbour by Macquarie Harbour on 20 June 1822, F. Fitzsymonds in his notes on Judith Judith Chambers and Thomas Allmet Chambers. It does seem possible that she claimed that the day before, three soldiers was one of the first eight convict women named Maurice Walsh, Terence Cahill sent to Macquarie Harbour. and Henry Leech arrived at the Island [The other women mentioned in his notes (Small Island later named Grunnet Island) were Mary Ann Furze, Mary Graham, where the convict women worked and and Elizabeth Bannister.]
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 97 9 [604] Sarah Hammond (46) aged 39, Muster at Macquarie Harbour. No further sentenced to 7 years at Surrey in 1820 for information. stealing wearing apparel, arrived in 12 [665] Isabella Hammill (49) aged 34, Hobart on 8 December 1821 on the was sentenced to 14 years at Lancaster Providence 11. She absconded from her for forging notes. Surgeon’s report states master’s premises in August 1822, then ‘swearer and disorderly’. (Native Place there is a gap until 1825. Because she is Tyrone, Ireland). Arriving in Hobart on on the 1822 Muster, it seems she was at board the Mary Ann l in May 1822, she Sarah Island for some of that time. In continued her criminal activities. For 1825 she was sent to the factory in ‘receiving 300 shirts and five pairs of Hobart, received her Free Certficate in trowsers, stolen from H. M. Magazine in 1827, then no further information. Hobart,’ she was sent to Macquarie 10 [623] Mary Revlett (24) aged 37, Harbour for 5 years in September 1822. sentenced to life at Middlesex in 1820 for On 17 November 1823 she was placed on larceny from the person. (Widow, native bread and water for 7 days for abusive place Jamaica). She also arrived on the language to the Assistant Surgeon Henry Providence ll in 1821. Nothing is Crockett at Macquarie Harbour. In recorded for her until 1824 but she is November she was again in trouble for false listed on the 1822 Muster, so it seems she scandalous and malicious expressions on a was at Sarah Island until her return to late trial at Macquarie Harbour. She was Hobart in 1824. She remained in trouble, assigned in Hobart in 1832 and by 1835 absconding, assault, etc. until 1844 when was Free by Servitude. No further she received her Ticket of Leave. She information. She is on the 1821–22 died in April 1847 and was buried in the Muster at Macquarie Harbour. grounds of the Prisoners’ Barracks, 13 [602] Elizabeth Gould (30) age 21, Hobart. was sentenced to 14 years in London for 11 [630] Elizabeth Slater (46) aged 18, forging bank notes. She arrived in sentenced to 14 years at Middlesex in Hobart on the Providence ll (first voyage) 1820 for uttering forged notes. Also on on 18 December 1821. In 1823 she the Providence 11 in 1820. Her first married John Boothsryde in Launceston, crime in Hobart, for stealing from Mrs [gap of 2 years from arrival] and 29 Sarah Birch, earned a sentence of six August 1823 for receiving, she was to be months in the Hobart Gaol. In October sent to Macquarie Harbour for three 1822 she was ordered to sit in the stocks years. She was in trouble until 1827 for six days for unbecoming and indecent when her husband died. She married conduct during her time as a nurse in the George Wellington in Hobart in 1829 and hospital at Macquarie Harbour. Again in continued to be in trouble until 1833. June 1823 for quitting the hospital and Sources later in June for disobedience to Assistant 1 HRA lll IV p.44 Surgeon Crockett at Macquarie Harbour. 2 AJCP Reel 65 pp.138–146 By 1827 she was back in Hobart. In 1834 3 Fitzsymonds. E, A Looking Glass of she was Free by Servitude, but continued Tasmania pp 17–20; CSO 1/177/4305 to be in trouble. She is on the 1821–22
98 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 NON-STATE RECORDS AN UNTAPPED RESOURCE Mary Ramsay
wealth of untapped genealogical who were associated with Fingal, and local history information can Swansea and Hobart. A be found in the private family The Clark family were army people. papers held within various library Four of Captain Clark’s five sons were in systems in Tasmania. This information is the army. His eldest son, Thomas Noble very hard to find at present. Most of the Clark (1793–1853), spent most of his indexing associated with these deposits is adult life in an army mental asylum after rather sketchy. Tracking down the papers a head injury in the Light Dragoons. This and extracting this information relies fact, or even his existence, would be partly on luck and partly on educated impossible to glean from most of these guesses. The full benefit of these papers family letters. Three of his early letters will not be felt until much better indexes written to his sister Jane in 1815, 1816 are compiled and circulated. For example, and 1820 are included in her papers2. The unless one can obtain a copy of the relevant Clark papers start with an 1812 letter guide, it requires quite extensive from the Duke of Gloucester’s secretary, knowledge, or a chance conversation with regretting Lt Clarks being a prisoner of the right person, to find out that within the war. The Duke offered to pay the Clark-Weston Papers held by the Royal expenses of one of his sons at military Society of Tasmania are many of the college. The Clarks were friendly with papers of John Clark, son of the original Governor Arthur and his family, and settler Captain William Clark of the 6th Jane, the elder daughter, became regiment of Foot, when John worked as a governess to the Arthur children. They government official in Launceston, Hobart, experienced many of the hardships and 1 George Town and Bothwell. privations of early settlers, especially The University Archives, through a those who were not accustomed to system of volunteers over many years, farming life. Ann Clark wrote to her has indexed most of the family papers it sister Jane in an undated letter3 (probably holds. For about six years I spent a few in 1825 as Ann married William hours each Tuesday morning reading Pritchard Weston of Longford in 1826). through old letters and documents and Really the dirt we live in would astonish noting items I thought should be you. The clothes I took off this morning mentioned in the guide to the papers and will be when put into water mud - if the names and subjects to be included in the viranda [sic] was paved we might be index. This was then computerised and a cleaner ... I put on my night cap to save hard copy printed out for the University my hair which I find most difficult to Archives Search Room. The family keep tolerable. papers I read were from the Clark family John Clark’s papers include of Cluny Park Bothwell and Mauriceton correspondence with and about many of near Kempton, and the Morris family his employees, receipts from many
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 99 hostelries he used in the 1830s during his These papers are incomplete. From the duties as a magistrate, accounts from Colonial Secretary’s Office records in the various shops and tradesmen in Bothwell, Archives Office of Tasmania we know Hobart and Launceston and copies of that Capt. William Clark maintained a letters he wrote to government officials. steady correspondence with the Governor There is one series which includes a copy but copies were not made of these letters, of a letter expressing his indignation in nor are the replies he received on file. November 1840 when the Police John Clark’s correspondence is complete Magistrate went off to the Regatta in for some years but sadly lacking in Hobart although he had been told others. The papers are complemented by bushrangers were in the area. Subsequent the Weston Papers held in the Queen letters in this copybook tell of the murder Victoria Museum in Launceston. of stock-keepers by these bushrangers and John Clark’s role in organising a search for the murdered men. He graphically described to the Governor their appear- ance when he found them, including a map of where the bodies were located. John Clark’s correspondents included Matthew Curling Friend and his wife Mary Ann who built The Grove at George Town and Newnham near Launceston, and William Barnes, the Cluny Park [AOT] brewer of Launceston who built Trevallyn, William Knibb Morris aged 22 now demolished. Dr Edward Swarbreck emigrated from England with his father Hall was also his friend and one letter per Boomerang in 1855. His brother describes the Halls’ removal from James was already settled in Hobart with Bothwell to Westbury in 1843 and what his wife Elizabeth and her father Mr he found there, Bryant. William was able to report home the shops poorly supplied and very dim.4 that reports of Mr Bryant’s drinking were false. He also wrote home. Jane Clark lived at Mauriceton near We did not lose a single adult by sickness Kempton until her death in 1873. Her during the whole voyage and only 5 correspondence contains mostly letters children most of [whom] were very from family and friends. Her sister Ann’s sickley [sic] when brought on board. children and grandchildren—Guthries, In 1861 his mother and sister also emigrated. Morrahs, Archers and Westons wrote to James Morris eventually became proprietor her at intervals over the century as did of Morris’ Store at Swansea. Some of others including Maria Pedder, wife of James’ letters, still in private ownership, Sir John Pedder, the early Van Diemen’s have been microfilmed and are held by Land judge. the Archives Office of Tasmania.
100 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 William, who worked mostly as a clerk or Although there is an article on Morris in shop-keeper, wrote home monthly to Kerr’s dictionary of Australian artists,7 various members of his family. The his letters in the University Archives are collection spans almost fifty years of not mentioned. They do, however, get happenings within the Morris family. included in the references in Long’s The letters have a wider appeal however, Tasmanian photographers.8 because William was a lively chronicler In hindsight, I feel the indexing of these of anything new—the railway system, the two sets of papers was not detailed electric telegraph, developments in enough. Perhaps every name should have photography, undersea cable and the received an entry on the data base and telephone, to name some of them. He every event also noted. The advent of also left Tasmania and travelled on the computerised data bases has made this mainland where he worked in Sydney, sort of indexing much easier and the Gundagai and Orange in New South information more easily disseminated. I Wales and Gayndah in Queensland. He enjoyed my work on these two very has some very good descriptions of different families and hope to find more Gayndah, which is inland from family papers to work on in the future. Maryborough in Queensland and the List of boots supplied by John McWaide aboriginal inhabitants he observed there. —Tanner of Bothwell to John Clark of Eventually he returned to Tasmania and Cluny Park Bothwell submitted by boot- became a storekeeper in Fingal. His parents maker William Merry 15 June 1839 ran a branch of his store at Mangana and Kitchen Knat George Groom both of them died and were buried in Fingal. Cole Henery Dan Costen William married Sarah Rebecca Rothwell in 1869 and they both helped build the Devine Isack Thos Hilton Methodist Church in Fingal. Mark Bennet Paul Holland (not Hough) Following a downturn in business the Morris family moved to Hobart in 1877. References: l See Mary Ramsay, ‘John Clark, JP, and his He wrote that his creditors all treated George Town magisterial records 1830– him kindly except P. O. Fysh. In Hobart 1835’, Tasmanian Ancestry Vol. 16 no. 1 William became involved in photography June 1995 and other scientific pursuits once again. 2 University of Tasmania Archives, Royal In 1880 he detailed the fortunes of an Society Papers RS8/F3 evening newspaper which was started in 3 op.cit. RS8/F6 no. 15 Hobart, The Star, whose proprietor he 4 op.cit.RS8 B23 5 University of Tasmania Archives, Morris tried unsuccessfully to help and reported 6 papers Ml3/1 to Tom that it would soon be setting . In 6 op. cit. M13/6 1882 he wrote to his brother Tom that he 7 Kerr, Joan ed., The Dictionary of Australian and Rev. Palfreyman who lived opposite artists. Melbourne, 1992. him in Arthur Street West Hobart had 8 Long, Chris., Tasmanian photographers rigged up a telephone line between their 1840-1940. Hobart, 1995. houses using porcelain cupboard door Photograph of Cluny Park from the Weekly Courier, 13 February 1904, page 17, is reproduced with the handles as insulators. permission of the Archives Office of Tasmania.
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 101 A BACKGROUND TO EARLY JUDAISM IN TASMANIA compiled by Tom B. Schlesinger
ANY Jews played a colourful the paper that he turned into a daily in and important part in the early Hobarton, now is part of the world wide history of Tasmania. Their Rupert Murdoch media empire. Mstory makes good telling, The period 1788–1830 included the because it has everything. Humour, arrival of the first Jews, and the tragedy, drama, violence, love, hate, fear commencement of free Jewish migration and self sacrifice, involving those Jews to Australia. In VDL there were who arrived during the early decades of sufficient numbers to afford some settlement in Van Diemen’s Land. measure of comparison between the two Their combined stories would fill many early Australian colonies of Sydney and volumes. Suffice it for the purposes of Hobart. It also was the Jewish this article to fill in some of the community convict era. By 1830, free background and some events only, which settlers outnumbered convict arrivals. I, as a collector and gatherer of facts from Also by 1830 an organised Jewish many sources, find interesting. community had emerged and the Eight Jewish convicts landed from the settlement in Van Diemen’s Land was First Fleet, some of whom in due course quickly losing its military bearing and found their way south to Tasmania. They penal character. were followed by hundreds more, Nearly all the early arrivals, whether transported for transgressions ranging convicts or free settlers, came from the from picking pockets to organized crime Jewish community of London. Until the on a large scale. Some continued life as 1830s, with the exception of a few mag- criminals in Australia, including murder. nates, (Isaac Goldsmid, David Ricardo, Such Jews were hanged, flogged or sent Nathan Rothschield and Moses Monte- to hellish outer settlements. fiore) the entire metropolitan Jewish Other Jewish convicts, both men and community continued to be found in the women, had experiences which read like East End of London. From Bishopsgate dramatic fiction. to the Tower lived the Jewish hawkers, One became the leader of a gang of stall owners and small dealers, shop- bushrangers, while his brother ended up keepers and dealers in old clothes. The as a most honoured citizen, becoming a bustle of the City, the street markets in newspaper proprietor and a partner in the Hobart Theatre Royal. Before becoming the East End of London’s ‘Rag Fair’, a press owner, he was at one time anchored the community securely to its convicted for criminal libel and at another traditional home just as surely as did the time worked as a chief constable in New geographical location of London’s South Wales. His proudest possession, Sephardi and Ashkenazi synagogues in Bevis Marks and Duke’s Place.
102 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 It has been estimated that in 1791 the more tightly knit Sephardi Jews had their Jews in England numbered at least 12,000 own charitable institutions, the newer to 16,000. The majority of immigrants Ashkenazim desperately ex-commun- who had arrived in London from the icated law breakers and applied to the continent had no useful trade or calling, Government for aid in preventing the as they were the product of centuries of migration of impoverished Jews into humiliation and discrimination, coming England. By 1779 poverty was such an from countries where religious and social acute problem within the Ashkenazi intolerance had made refugees of them. community of London, that riots broke They faced familiar problems in their out and a society had to be set up to new land. From the Jewish community supply food and coal to the Jewish poor. itself the traditional dietary laws and I have always felt that, as the crimes Sabbath prohibitions helped to build committed by some of the convicts effective barriers to economic integration. brought out from England seemed so It was not simply a matter of being petty, it seemed likely there were many unable to function as equal citizens in the folk living in London at the time, who precincts of the City of London. There considered that to receive a sentence of was also the tradition of anti-semitism transportation, was preferable to starving which inflicted grave scars upon the and/or freezing to death in the streets of individual and communal life of the Jews London. So they turned to petty larceny in England. There were problems to escape. confronting Jews in their choice of The pattern of transportation of the Jews schools and professions which arose from reflects one that can be seen in the the general structure of the community general convict statistics and in the and churches and education. earliest years of Australian history As each outbreak of European appears to represent a fairly constant 1% persecution sent more Jews to England, of the total convict group. However, as the leaders of London Jewry tried to stem the London-tried convicts diminished, the the apparently inexorable human tide. proportion of Jews among those sent to Whilst the wealthier, established and Australia also diminished.
Jews Number of % of Jewish sent to convicts sent convicts Australia from England 1788–1830
1788–1799 54 5,808 0.93% 1800–1809 34 3,274 1.07% 1810–1819 124 10,265 1.21% 1820–1829 150 20,947 0.72% 1830 16 4,399 0.37% Year unknown 6
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 103 The character and social status of the census in New South Wales, which listed Jewish community in London is only 1774 shopkeepers and other ‘retail illustrated by the occupations listed in the dealers’ representing 3.1% of the convict records. Just over half of the population. At that time there were 856 convicts were listed with their English Jews in all of Eastern Australia trade of occupation. A surprising variety constituting 0.7% of the total population of different skills was recorded: and at least half of the bread winners in tailors grooms this Jewish group were retailers. pencil makers watchmakers The Jews brought with them a long butchers pen cutters tradition of close family and communal shoemakers jewellers life. They were accustomed to making a tobacco manufacturers glass cutters living in a hostile environment. They furriers hatters possessed a deep respect for education, so Others lesser in number included: that it was common for the poorest Jews to be able to read and write in an era when brewer barber illiteracy was the rule rather that the baker chimney sweep exception. A sense of kinship was dentists ostrich feather manufacturer heightened by familiarity with poverty, sailmaker cooper exile and sudden expulsion. Their names cotton wick maker musician and faces were distinctive and their social sailor spectacle maker background and economic status very upholsterer silversmith similar. All these qualities which merge brickmaker calico glazier into a flexible ability to make the best of engraver cane gilder circumstance, they brought with them. The rest were messenger boys, orange For decades there was no official or boys (who sold oranges in the London organized Jewish community and yet streets) sweeps, unskilled labourers and Australian Jews maintained helpful social prostitutes. contact and a feeling of shared Among the ‘dealers’ the street fruit responsibility. This in many ways has sellers, pedlars, and old clothes men are lasted to the present day. high on the list of Jewish convicts. There were six clerks, a ships’ broker and a diamond broker. As can be seen, the
Jewish involvement in the clothing trade clearly emerged, even from within the ranks of the convicts. One third of the group consisted of old clothes men, furriers, tailors, hatters and shoemakers.
In Australia these convicts would play a Compiled by Tom B. Schlesinger, part in the creation of a retail clothing Hobart, Tasmania, May 1997. industry. From records of the Hobart Synagogue, plus Just how different these details are from information from writings by Rabbi John Levi and Dr G. F. Bergman. the pattern set by the general non-Jewish population, can be inferred from the 1841
104 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 THE PROMISED LAND Arch Flanagan
OR Thomas it had been a long He was a good man, Brickford. On his night of fitful sleep. Without a extensive and well-organised estate watch he had waited anxiously for worked forty or more persons, free, F the dawn bringing the blissful day convict, ticket-of-leave, men and women. that would re-unite him with his family A good master, unlike some others after six long years. Throughout the dark hereabouts. Thomas had heard stories of hours the rapturous hopes of the last two unjust treatment, cruel and abusive. Like years had erratically come and gone. Brickford’s brother. Only last muster a For two years ago he had learned that it bitter young Londoner had furtively was now Government policy to send out shown him the scars crisscrossing his the families of good conduct convicts, back. ‘Him,’ he snarled. ‘May the and, ever since, every day more surely, bastard rot in hell and everyone of his his wildest aspirations had become a family.’ great up-lifting certainty. At a brisk pace Thomas passed through They were now in Launceston, Eliza and Longford township where as yet scarcely the children, and today, after so many a chimney sent forth its morning smoke. years of despair and hardship, they would Out past Muddy Plains, and on to the be with him at last. Deloraine Road. Near here was a stream, crystal clear and rippling, where he rested He had wondered yet again about their his horse awhile, as well as his own legs, journey out on the emigrant ship, for he was no longer young. Well, Northumberland; the bitter cold numbing Bridget would be 16 now, Patrick 14 and them through the icy climes, the tropical John 12. And little Katie 7. Just fancy heat stifling them in the crowded, foetid that, Katie 7. quarters below. What of their ship’s captain and surgeon? Would they be The sun was straggling through the gums efficient, caring and sober, as so many now, a lovely February morning. His weren’t? Would raging seas terrify and back against a sturdy tree, his thoughts sicken them? How would his beloved whirled again. His arrest back in Katie, two years old when he was Roscommon for stealing grain to defy the suddenly taken from them, handle the Great Famine, he and five others, the trial ordeal? Soon he would know all. and the sentence, each seven years, Kilmainham Gaol. The memory of that At the first tinge of light he was astir and gaol forever haunted him, for here the full dressed. A bowl of oatmeal and then to understanding of his hopeless position the stables to harness the horse. had penetrated his understanding, the Mr Brickford had told him the previous every-growing certainty of transportation, day, ‘They’ll have much luggage so take the yearning for his family, the a dray. Leave early. Twelve miles into knowledge of their now more desperate town. Four hours. Home before dark.’ plight. Nothing ever again was as bad as
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 105 that, not even the journey out on Aspen veiled by the wood smoke from its with a bullying captain and a surgeon chimneys, sprawled before him. who drank constantly rather than defy Half way down the hill he met a squat, him in the interests of his defenceless black-whiskered man pushing a barrow charges. Upon arrival in Hobart, being of laden with a trunk and smaller boxes, good conduct, he had been granted a apparently the property of the tall, pallid ticket-of-leave which meant he could seek work anywhere, and eventually he girl who traipsed behind him. He had come to Longford and gained lowered the barrow and greeted Thomas. employment at Brickford’s. Within ‘Have you anything to drink?’ months he had made a request for his Thomas proffered the bottle he’d re-filled family to join him—or rather Mr from his stream and the man took a Brickford had, because neither Thomas hearty gulp and handed it back. nor any of his family could read nor write. But the wheels of bureaucracy had ‘What about her?’ asked Thomas. ground slowly and it was two years ‘Oh, yeah. S’pose so. She’s off the before Thomas heard the glad tidings that Northumberland. They’re all in they were due to leave Ireland on the Conolly’s in Charles Street waiting to be Northumberland in October, 1852. Then picked up.’ He nodded towards the girl. the anxious wait until finally came news ‘Not a bad buy. Eight pounds for a year. of their arrival in Van Diemen’s Land. Keep too, of course.’ ‘They’re here,’ Mr Brickford had told Unanswering, Thomas drove on. Since him, ‘at the mouth of the Tamar. A few he’d left Roscommon he’d seen others days there for inspection and reports, then like him, hard men for their own up to Launceston and we’ll collect them purposes. He thanked God that his from there.’ A fortnight passed before Bridget would not become the property of the further news that they were to be such. Mrs Brickford would employ her, released at last. Mr Brickford the boys, and all would be Beside this lovely stream he now well. resolved that there they would rest on As he entered the town he passed three their return journey and eat the lunch that convicts in irons working on a rough cook Jane Bearnside had provided. Jane, section of street. Hard cases, he thought, a young convict girl separated from her pushing the system to its harsh, inevitable family, related to Thomas’ day of happiness and had supplied him well. end. Nearby a soldier sat on a doorstep, Yes, here they would chat and talk. So gun propped against the wall. He passed much to tell. a house showing a sign that read Transportation Must Cease and a shop He pushed on again, past Travellers’ with another that said more bluntly No Rest, past a man and boy erecting a log More Convicts. He asked a couple of fence who vainly sought talk with him. A coach overtook him, the passengers boys towing a billycan of firewood where clinging precariously outside it greeting Connolly’s Store was and they directed him cheerfully. Soon he topped the him with enthusiasm. Sandhill and saw Launceston, lightly As Thomas approached the store a tense eagerness welled up within him. At first
106 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 he could see no-one, but as he entered the recognised as his own. ‘We must be on front door he was rudely seized and his our way,’ it said. ‘We have a long way to long lost sons were upon him, go.’ pummelling his hand, hugging him. They As the boys brought forth the luggage, burbled words of greeting to each other, Thomas silently placed it in the dray and while Thomas marvelled at their growth the little party moved off, Thomas and they at his oldness. Finally he asked, walking ahead beside the horse, the ‘Where are the others? Where are they?’ others trailing behind, marvelling at this The boys vanished within the building strange, sprawling, colonial town, but and almost immediately Eliza and Bridget depressed and saddened by the effect burst forth. It was Bridget who reached their news had wrought. him first, her arms around his neck, Back up Wellington Street they went, hugging, hugging; then Eliza, her soft, past the sullen road gang, past walking loving body pressed against his, five women laden with shopping, past years of loneliness surpassed by one tradesmen’s carts and the gigs of the ecstatic moment. wealthy, on up the Sandhill to the flatter Finally they broke apart and Thomas road beyond. exclaimed, ‘Katie! Where’s my little Thomas plodded on ahead, glancing at Katie?’ nothing. Why, oh God, why? Surely They seemed to step back a pace and he they could have saved her. I wanted them could see them, all four, the boys at the all, but perhaps I wanted her most. side, heads averted, Bridget slightly They passed Travellers’ Rest and finally behind her mother, and Eliza facing him, came to the bush stream. all silent. Here they were to have eaten and ‘Where is she?’ he repeated, ‘Where’s gossiped, so much to tell. Here he was to Katie?’ have lighted a fire with the boys, Australian style, with crackling gum tree In the long pause that followed the bark and sticks wafting forth their sweet answer came to him in a sudden, stunning smoke. burst of understanding. Instead he gave them the hamper and told Then Eliza spoke. ‘It was the little ones. them to boil the billy. He would rest a They had the least resistance. They just while, he said, the morning trip had tired faded away. It was worse after you left. him. It was so bad. It went on for so long.’ Overhanging the creek was a gnarled and She paused. ‘For years.’ The boys were ancient tree and he went and leant upon looking away. Bridget’s eyes were one of its ample branches, chin cradled in downcast. ‘So many of them died. The his arms. Eliza sat on a fallen tree while Heaneys lost three. The Hogan twins the boys busied themselves around the both went.’ fire. For what seemed an age they stood there Bridget came and leant beside him and, like carved figures, motionless, silent. like him, silently gazed into the hurrying Then Thomas heard a voice he scarcely water. Thomas knew that she had come
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 107 to comfort him, and after a while he spoke. NOTE: Arch Flanagan’s moving story, ‘She would have been seven now,’ he whilst fictional, was written after said. family research had revealed that ‘Yes, Da, seven in August. She’ll always both his great-grandfather and his be some age, Da. Strange with little ones wife’s great-grandfather had who die, isn’t it. What age are they, applied, as Ticket-of-Leave men, always a sweet four as she was or do they to have their families join them grow older and lovelier? You’d been left from the famine-stricken Ireland of Kilmainham only a few months when she the early 1850s. Arch has died. We couldn’t let you know. All the combined the factual events from way out it hung over us like a black convict and shipping records, his intimate knowledge of the cloud, telling you. But Mammy said it Longford-Launceston area, his was her duty, she’d do it.’ knowledge of Tasmanian social She paused awhile. ‘It was Mammy who history and his talent as a writer to saved us back there. We would have all weave wonderful pictures of died but for her. In our most terrible convict family life. times, when we were hungriest and all Joyce Purtscher. hope had gone, she held fast.’ She paused again, put her hand on his arm and looked into his eyes with an NEW BOOKS unspoken plea. Finally he squeezed her Writing & Publishing Family History: hand gently and moved away. An Introduction He went to Eliza and sat beside her. by Noeline Kyle After a time he spoke. ‘I’m sure you’ll Paperback 50 pp. $7.00 plus p&p $1.50 How to get started as a writer—thinking like it here,’ he said. ‘Plenty of food, strategies and planning—different genres for meat and vegetables and fruit. You’ll the writing task—desktop publishing—a first draft, final tips and summary. never be hungry again, never. And the weather’s lovely, even in winter the sun The Family History Writing Book shines often and at night there are blazing by Noeline Kyle & Ron King log fires. I’m sure you’ll be happy.’ New edition in paperback 88 pp. $12.95 plus p&p $1.50 He put his hand gently on hers and she This book offers guidance on the planning looked at him, almost coyly, as in their and writing task and outlines a range of ways to write your family history—with a concise courting days back in Ail Finn a hundred guide to desktop publishing. years ago. NEW EMAIL COURSE ‘’Tis the Promised Land,’ she teased. Email course on Writing and Publishing ‘Yes,’ he answered solemnly, ‘I think it Family History—$30.00 enrol now email [email protected] is, and ’tis you who led them out of the Wilderness.’ ♣ WRITE FOR DETAILS NOW Family History Writing Enterprises 77 Green Terrace Windsor QLD 4030
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108 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 ALL IN THE FAMILY Maria Brandl
ITTLE did my greatgrandparents was searching so it must be my know that a family secret that grandmother. Her birth certificate named they had carefully concealed her parents as Michael and Mary. But her L certificate of marriage named another set would emerge one hundred and twenty- of parents, Michael’s brother John and his five years later when a family historian wife Margaret, but no record exists of her was trying to track them down. being born to them. So what was A secret is always fun to uncover. I found happening here? it as I was checking records and my The simplest explanation is that both experience raises the question of what families had a daughter of the same first can facts (or records) tell you that name, only one of which was registered. memory (or family traditions) can’t or But born in the same year? Had one of won’t? It is particularly satisfying when the infants died? No likely reference the revealed information can result only in good and no one remains to be affected occurred in the index to deaths. by repercussions, legal or emotional. So I began to check other certificates, particularly the death certificates of both The story begins with my starting in the ‘mothers’. Curiously the daughter with text-book fashion with myself and my grandmother’s name had dropped off working back to parents and grandparents Mary’s death certificate but appeared on collecting birth, marriage and death Margaret’s. I decided to appeal to certificates along the way. I also found a Church records. It took much longer to living elderly relative on my mother’s track down the old baptism register than side willing to write to me about oral to send for a government certificate, but I family history. Our letters went back and located it eventually with the priest of a forth quite genially until one brought me neighbouring parish. The baptism had up short. What he told me threw into occurred one month after the birth. It bore question a lot of the information I had the same date and place as on the birth been collecting so carefully. My certificate, but not the same parents. correspondent wrote: ‘I may be reading More puzzling still, the birth had been your charts wrongly but I do know that registered by the birth mother three your grandmother was a sister to my months after the birth, and two months father, not his cousin. We always called after the baptism—when the second her auntie’. Further, he had looked her parents were named. The question still up in the old school records and she is remains. What was happening here? down there as his father’s sister. Well, I have a theory which involves a I went into overdrive. I checked the panorama of nineteenth century history, Index to Pioneer Births again and printed two continents and three families. I out all references with a name like my would be interested in any alternative grandmother’s. Only one had been born theory from more experienced in the state within the ten year period I researchers.
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 109 The brothers Michael and John came house was full of males and all the mid- from County Clare in Ireland as assisted nineteenth century household tasks that labourers to South Australia and then resulted: washing, cleaning, cooking, went on to the goldfields in north-east bed-making, sewing. To add to this, my Victoria where they later took up land grandmother’s birth mother was to and settled. become pregnant again at age 38 in the Michael and Mary had married in same year her seventh child was born. Cratloe, County Clare in 1854 before they In these circumstances it was not emigrated. Both were in their early surprising if an informal adoption twenties, Catholic and ready to begin a occurred. The families were close-knit new family in a new land. They were to and clannish in the Irish way, the child’s have eight children: three sons and five surname would remain the same in her daughters—one of whom was my new family as would half of her ancestry. grandmother. Michael’s brother John, Her birth family would gain a bit of relief who was younger, followed later and before the next mouth arrived to be fed married Margaret, also from County and her smaller family of adoption would Clare, in 1865 and had four sons. gain a much needed female in the My grandmother’s birth parents, Mary household. Everyone seemed a winner. and Michael, had brought with them her In the small rural community where these widowed mother Bridget and her sister, families had taken up their selections it is Catherine. This aged lady and her two puzzling how the adoption was kept a daughters were the only members of their secret. The midwife knew, as would the family which had included a father and older children in both families one would six children to survive the Great Famine have thought. And neighbours? Members in Ireland in the 1840s. Both Michael of the congregation? Perhaps to an and John would also have had vivid outsider one Irishman’s tribe of children memories of that dark time, Clare being appeared much the same as his brother’s. one of the western counties hardest hit. Even more tantalising is why it was kept So far as I have been able to find out, secret? Were such adoptions against John’s wife-to-be Margaret emigrated church edict? Was shame attached to alone. She was also from County Clare. ‘giving a child away’?—even to a family So three families are involved in this member as close as one’s brother? In family secret: that of both fathers and many cultures around the world it is those of each of the two mothers. When common practice for a person to adopt a my grandmother was born in 1871 sibling’s offspring, but was that true of Mary’s mother was dead and her sister the nineteenth century Irish? was married with her own family. The My grandmother grew up believing new baby was the fifth daughter, for herself to be the child of one particular Mary, adding to a surfeit of daughters at a set of parents and raised her two children time when sons were needed to help with in the same belief. Yet she was in fact the labour of clearing the selected land. the niece of the man she called father and The other mother Margaret had no no blood relation to the woman she called extended family, nor a daughter, and her mother. She was a first cousin to the
110 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 boys she called brother, and she had Descendants of brothers and sisters she thought were her James HAINES first cousins. who arrived Port Adelaide on the Moreover she lost as relatives all the Lysander 1850 children of her real mother’s sister who James married have became a very large family indeed. 1 Eliza SHERGOLD An intriguing sequel to this one hundred- 2 Ann RATTEW and-twenty-five-year secret is that my 3 Eliza ROGERS Some associated names: cousin, presently in partnership with an Kent, Humphries, Nitschke, Jackway, old playmate and friend, finds now they Opperman, Bott, Gray, Duck, Wyatt, are related by blood. The two business Foley, Day, Randall, Hann and partners are both greatgreatgrandsons of Nilsson. old Bridget who survived the Great A HAINES reunion organised by Famine and came with her two daughters Thelma Opperman at Millicent in 1975 to start again in a new land. was to be followed by publication of a book. For someone as interested in female lines This book is now being compiled by of descent as I, other outcomes from this The South East Family History Group Inc. research are worth noting. The woman at 14 Stuckey Street Millicent SA. whom my grandmother believed to be her For information please contact: mother passed on to her oral traditions of SEFHG Inc. her own family background in Ireland. Box 758 PO Millicent SA 5280 We, as descendants, benefit from my grandmother having not only a family of birth but also a family of upbringing. It certainly keeps this family historian Index of Obituaries happy and makes for a richer heritage. from Walch’s Tasmanian I am a beginner at family history but I am Almanacs now asking myself why did I leave it so The ‘Red Books’ long? Not only is it enjoyable and 1870–1979/80 interesting to do but if I had started Compiled by Sandra Duck earlier, as we all know, I would have learned so much more from older family The Index includes the year members. Facts always have a story of publication of the obituary behind them which they cannot tell for in the almanac, only memory can do that. surname and christian name While I have certainly found out how or initials of the deceased. much those bare official records can Most entries also give occupations, reveal, our family may never know the place and date of death. real story of my grandmother’s adoption. Available from: 71 Gibson Street, Kings Meadows, Tasmania 7249 $18.00 + $3.60 p&p
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 111 much amicable discussion, Richard and I VAN DIEMEN’S LAND have fashioned some alternative histories AND NORFOLK ISLAND of Sarah Island which suggest a number INTEREST GROUP of ways in which the settlement might have operated. Many of these turn T the last meeting of the group, existing assumptions on their heads. A Hamish Maxwell-Stuart was our We are currently writing the script for a guest speaker and told of his new guide book which will explore the research on Sarah Island. He now has a day-to-day operation of the site through list of well over 1,000 convicts who were the eyes of one convict. Our man, John sent to Macquarie Harbour, many of Knight, was retransported to Macquarie whom have nothing on their conduct Harbour from New South Wales in the record to show this. Some have the early 1820s. An absconder form Port letters M.H. which have often been Macquarie, Knight initially laboured in a mistaken for an official’s initials. timber rolling and carrying gang in the Hamish sent a copy of the list to lower Gordon and Kelly’s Basin. From Tasmanian Ancestry and the group, but it there he was promoted, via the saw pits, is much too long to include in the journal. to work in the shipyards. While there are Queries or any information welcome. many other convicts we could have selected to tell stories about Sarah, we have settled on Knight for a number of reasons. During his time at Macquarie TELLING THE SARAH Harbour, Knight was both a dobber and a cobber, engaging in fawning exercises ISLAND STORY designed to gain official praise while Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stuart simultaneously plotting behind the scenes with other convict moral economists. N September of last year the Our aim is to use his story to convey the playwright Richard Davey and I complexities of life in a colonial penal secured a grant from the Australia station to a public who have hitherto been I Foundation to upgrade tourist fed a lean (and largely boring) diet of facilities at Sarah Island. Sarah, or tired old tales. In order to reinforce our Settlement Island, was the headquarters point, we would like to include an of Macquarie Harbour penal station appendix which detailed some of the founded in early 1822 and closed down in contributions made to Australian society January 1834. by the descendents of the men and Both Richard and I have been fascinated women who lived and worked at Sarah. by the Sarah Island story for a number of Can any of your members help? years. Although we have until recently Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stewart worked independently, we have Department of History & Classics discovered that we have been wrestling University of Tasmania with the same conundrum. How can a GPO Box 252-81 Hobart penal settlement with a reputation for Tasmania 7001 Australia ‘woe, despair and depravity’ have doubled as an important colonial shipyard? Although still the subject of
112 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 WHAT’S IN A NAME? Wayne Smith
NE of the most exciting tasks we Sarah Anne, Black Charlies Opening, ever undertake is to choose a Black Mary’s Lookout, Blackguards Hill, O name for our new-born child. In Blessed’s Shore, Blue Stocking Creek, a world where communication with Boot Jack Flat, Brains Hill, Bread and others is our most important social Butter Gully, Breakneck Creek, responsibility, we could hardly survive Breakspeare Creek, Bust-me-Gall Hill, without some system of labelling to apply Chick’s Perch, Chucklehead, Coffin Bay, to people, places, possessions, flora and Deadman’s Gulch, Death and Judgement fauna etc., to enable us to carry on a Corner, Defrieze Bay, Desolation Bay, sensible conversation and identify who, Devils Sewer, Diabobble Hill, Doctor or what, we are talking about. All names Lever’s Head, Dunnies Creek, Eggs and are important, but place names play an Bacon Bay, Gallows Hill, Gibbet Hill, especially vital role in our lives. Imagine Humbug Point, Hungry Flats, Ladys Bay, living in a world with no place names. Linger and Die Creek, Linga Longa Hill, How would we describe where we are, Pudding Bag Lane, Masons Downfall, where we are going, or where we have Murderer’s Plains, Madman’s Hill, been? Mount Slaughter, Mother Brown’s From the earliest times in history, Bottom, Mouldy Hole, No where Else, geographical features have been given Old Woman’s Head, Round Bottom, names to identify them and Australia has Sisters Beach, Skeleton Rock, Skullbones inherited its method of naming places Plain, Smoke Signal Hill, Smokers Bank, largely from Europe (principally the Starvation Bay, Suicide Bay, Thieving United Kingdom) and from the names Hill, Tom Ugly’s Point, Wetpants Creek, applied by Australian and Tasmanian Wiharaja and so on. Aborigines. Tasmania has something in Many of these fascinating names had excess of 30,000 official names to their origins in our unique past where identify its mountains, creeks, hills, bushrangers and Aborigines terrorised the islands etc. This state is blessed with a early settlers. Other names preserve number of wonderful place names which some quaint Old English terminology have mystifying origins. My natural which is not used today. curiosity made me wonder where on earth Let us now analyse how most of our some names sprang from. For example, place names originated. Out of the mists what fertile mind conjured up the of the past the ancient races named following place names? features for their significance to them at The Vertical Acre, Aw Kaw Creek, Bag the time, identifying good hunting/fishing and Rake Gully, Bag o’ Bones Creek, grounds, camping spots, waterholes, Ballahoo Island, The Ballroom, Barber’s danger points etc. As an example, some Bottom, Batchelor’s Flat, Bed Chambers Aboriginal tribes in Western Australia Hill, Beginners Bay, Belcher’s Lookout, added the suffix up to the end of a word Bellas Hole, Big Raggedy Head, Big to symbolise water.
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 113 Naturally in a dry state like WA, water is chief), Romsey (Rum’s island) arguably the most significant ingredient Bermondsey (Beornmund’s island), to sustain life. Therefore, good camping Battersea (Beaduric’s island) and spots were identified with the place name Anglesey. The last mentioned means bearing final syllable up. Therefore, we Angles (i.e. Anglo-Saxon’s) Island can be assured that we can find water at (although some authorities dispute this Barringup (watering place), Boilyup and suggest it means Ongull’s island). (water bubbling in a soak), Manjimup All the early invaders of Britain arrived (bullrushes near a waterhole), Wardup by boat, eventually forcing their way (water all summer) and Winderlup (a inland up the numerous waterways. No permanent creek). doubt the invaders asked the vanquished The Tasmanian Aborigines used the inhabitants the name of the waterway affixes lie, lia, rena, mena, deena and they had used for access and were simply teena to indicate water and many names told avon which was the ancient Briton given by the Hydro Electric Commission word to signify a river. to their dam sites reflect this connection As a general rule, tribes which settled with water. For example, Lietinna (cold around a particular river simply called it water), Liawenee (cold water) Liapoota the river (i.e. the avon) in much the same (creek), Waddamana (from Waddamena) way as Hobartians today simply refer to (river), Wayatinah (creek) and Tungatina the Derwent as the river and Mount (rain shower). Some other Tasmanian Wellington as the mountain. Conse- place names indicating the presence of quently, there are eight Avon Rivers in water are: Liena (fresh water), Lileah England today. There are also several (fresh water), Lialeeta (sea), Rinadeena Ouse Rivers in Britain because another (raindrops) and Renah (water rat). Celtic variation applied to many rivers However, when lia is added to the end of was the name ouse which is simply a a word it often means something quite word meaning water. This word appears different from water, e.g. Tarraleah to be closely related to eau, the French (kangaroo). word for water. Roman invaders The ancient European tribes also interpreted the word ouse as Isca and commonly used descriptive names for many English streams still use this name water locations. For example, some early in a corrupted form, e.g. Exe, Ux, Axe or Briton tribal groups used the suffix ea, ey, Esk. The word ‘river’ (from the French y at the end of a word to signify water in Riviere) was not added to the names of the same way as the Aboriginal up is British streams until the Normans used. This word is closely related to the invaded England in 1066 as they did not French eau which also means water. realise that Avon and Ouse, Esk etc. Therefore many river names culminate in actually meant river or water. Paradoxic- ey (e.g.) Mersey (meaning Boundary ally, Avon River, Ouse River, Esk River River), Romney (Broad River), Waveney etc. then meant River River or Water (Wavy River) etc. However, just to River. confuse us, in other cases the suffix ey When nomadic tribes moved from stream can mean an island, e.g. Bardsey Island to stream, it was necessary to differentiate (Bardr’s island—Bardr being a tribal each waterway and in these cases another
114 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 descriptive name was applied, (e.g. the Thames means dark). The word Thames DID YOU KNOW? was corrupted over the years and other Wayne Smith dark streams now bear the name Tame, If readers show enough interest, I would Teme, and Tamar etc. Other descriptive be delighted to regularly list nomen- names used for rivers were Wye clature quizzes, sometimes accompanied (winding), Stour (strong?), Trent with short pen sketches of the historical (wandering) etc. The rivers Darwen, origins of the various names. Derwent, Darent, and Dart are all derived Incidentally, if readers disagree with my from the Celtic word for oak trees comments or they are aware of the origins of some other place names, I would be signifying that the river wended its way pleased to hear from them. through groves of oaks. The invading Angles and Saxons added a few • That the Egg Islands opposite Cradoc descriptive names themselves such as in the Huon River were named after Waveny (wavy), Blythe (merry) and swan’s eggs. An article in the Hobart Blackwater etc. Town Courier of 6 June 1829 stated: They are called the Egg Islands, from the The English also introduced the words great number of swans that make nests brook and bourne (or burn) for minor among the long grass which overgrows streams and when these words are given a them. descriptive prefix they become • That Sale Street, Huonville was Blackburn, Redbourn (reedy), Sherborne known as Pudding Bag Lane in the early (shear, clear, bright), Woburn (crooked) 1900s. It is alleged that at Christmas, and so on. As a matter of interest rows and rows of Christmas pudding bags Melbourne means millstream. These few were suspended beneath the verandahs of examples clearly demonstrate that buildings fronting this street. Apparently Australia is indebted to the ancient in windy weather the bags swayed to and inhabitants of Britain and their invaders fro and proved quite hazardous to for many of our present names. customers from the nearby Picnic Hotel when staggering home down the lane. HELP WANTED • That Eggs and Bacon Bay was I am currently collating named after a yellow pea-flowered information to create a book on wildflower. Local resident Ed Penny Huon nomenclature claims that this bay gained its unusual and would be most grateful to get family name as the native plant Dillwynia history information on the old glaborinia commonly called Eggs and Huon pioneers. Bacon (alternatively Native Daphne) Names like Fletcher, Pilling, Perry, grows prolifically here. Riseley, Skinner, Hudson, Jarrett, Rathbone, Pettit, Watson, Wilson, • That Southport was previously Herlihy, Direen, Kruse, Guy, Gaylor, known as Hythe (after Hythe in Kent Bacon, Glover, Winters, Steele, Toby, England which means Landing Place). Lowe, King, Dalco, Bell, Salter etc. Hythe was surveyed, streets planned and (03) 6248 7210 set aside as a township in 1838. Wayne Smith
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 115 Dover, Port Esperance Burial Places—Part 1 Norm Beechey
HREE main burial sites have been and Margaret, relict of John GRAY, used at Esperance over the years; died 3.2.1890, aged 96 years. Faith Island, once known as Dead 6 Alice M. DRYSDALE, died T Island, a site near the Dover 12.8.1885. township known as Owen’s Hill and the 7 Adam SLACK, died 21.7.1887, in his church yard of the Community church. 66th year. Details of burials at the Community 8 David CHAPMAN, died 24.6.1884, church are given as Part 1 of this article in 68th year - born Bathgate, Scotland and the other burial places will be dealt 16.12.1817. with in Part 2. and David CHAPMAN died 18.12.1878, aged 32 years [nephew of Dover Community Church 8.] This church, built in 1876, was the 9 John Cane JUDD, died 27.2.1888, second church built at Dover following aged 64 years. the Roman Catholic church built in 1866. 10 William DONALDSON, died It was originally built as a bethal or non- 20.6.1883, aged 84 years. denominational Protestant church but was and Benjamin T. DONALDSON, mainly used by Congregationalists and in died 28.2.1893, aged 73 years. 1923 was sold to the Congregational and Ann, wife of above, died Union. 30.11.1901, aged 86 years. The first burial made there was that of 11 Dennis Joseph STUBBS, died James Hoskins, aged 18, who had been 6.4.1891, aged 26 years. drowned on 24 February 1877 although 12 Ann, wife of William Potts the church was not officially opened until CLENNETT, died 21.5.1886, in 57th 6 May 1877. Of the original graves at year, this church graveyard the following and Albert, youngest son of above, remain: died 17.5.1878, in 12th year, 1 Thomas BEDDOES, accidentally and William Potts CLENNETT, died killed at Ida Bay 21.9.1888, aged 85. 20.6.1898, aged 72 years. 2 Catherine STANLEY, relict of the 13 Mary Ann DAVIS, died 14.6.1891, late Henry JONES, died 8.11.1883, aged 63 years. aged 90 years. and Thomas DAVIS, husband of 3 Charles Philip AUSTIN, died above, died 27.1.1893, aged 68 years. 7.6.1877, aged 10 years. 14 James [HOSKINS], drowned 21.2.1877, 4 James RIGDON, died 30.10.1890, [son] of James & Mary Hoskins, aged 66 years. and Mary An[n] [H]OSKINS, 5 John GRAY, died 23.7.1884, aged 89 mother of above, died 10.1.1897, years. aged 79 years, and Annie, wife of Robert GRAY, and James HOSKINS, died died 12.1.1886, aged 44 ? 10.10.1918, aged 90 years. and Alfred Varnuls H[O]SKINS, drowned [?], aged 19 years.
116 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 In 1949, part of the church graveyard was and Joseph, died 29.12.1917, aged 83 made into a park, authorised by an Act of years. Parliament (Dover Cemetery (Vesting) 7 Anna Kathleen CLENNETT, died No.2 of 1949), and a large number of 9.4.1896, aged 11 weeks, gravestones removed. and Lance Corporal H. Guy The stones removed were placed in a pile CLENNETT, died 4.8.1917, killed on at the new Dover public cemetery, the active service, Pozier, [France], aged intention being to re-erect them there. 23 years. This was not done, and for some years the 8 William Francis DALE, died [?]1906, stones were left just outside the public tip and Ella Valerie DALE, died opposite the cemetery. In 1991 the 24.3.1900, aged 10 years. remaining stones, twenty-seven in 9 Sarah, wife of John DAVIS, died number, probably only a fraction of those 29.11.1907, aged 42 years. removed, were returned to the 10 William DAVIS, died 22.1.1893, churchyard. Many were broken, some in aged 64 years, several pieces and with pieces missing; and Ann, wife of above, died the intact stones and those that could be 10.8.1903?, aged 70 years. well repaired were stood up in the 11 John DRYSDALE, died 22.2.1909, churchyard with a brass plaque telling aged 62 years. their story. The badly broken ones were 12 Herbert W. son of J. & E. EBERY, embedded in concrete in the ground. died 22.4.1906, aged 20 years. The stones recovered were : 13 Catherine, wife of J. FRANCIS, died 1 Annie ATKINSON, wife of George 22.5.1926, aged 65 years. Atkinson, died 8.1.1898, aged 14 Benjamin GRAY, died 22.10.1896, [55,35,33?] aged 31 years, and George ATKINSON, husband of and John Harper GRAY, died 2.8.1913, above, died 9.6.1924, aged 75 years. accidentally killed, aged 45 years, loved 2 Thomas Henry BAKER, died husband of Evelyn GRAY. 29.8.1894, aged 18 years, 15 John, husband of Mary HORNSEY, and Bertie Patrick BAKER, died died 3.1.1918. 31.8.1894, aged 7 weeks. 16 John JUDGE, died 2.3.1916, aged 73 3 Henry BRADSHAW, died 27.9.1912, years. aged 47 years, 17 Ann, wife of William KILLING- and Alice M. I. daughter of above, died 4.1.1907, aged 11 years. BACK, died 10.6.1903, aged 62 4 Peter Craig BROWN, died 4.1.1907, years. and Alexander James BROWN, died 18 William KNIGHT, died 20.12.1891, 4?, aged 14½ years, aged 72, and Ann BROWN, 8.1.[?], aged 54 and Sarah Louise, died 1.12.1911, years. aged 80 years. 5 Sarah, wife of William CASEY, died 19 Margaret Mary PULFER, born 19.11.1896, aged 74 years. 20.1.1875, died 24.7.1927. 6 Selina, wife of Joseph CLAYTON, 20 Mary PURVES, died [?]4.1907, aged died 26.6.1911, aged 71 years, 82, and William PURVES, died [?]1908, aged 79 years.
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 117 21 Dorothy Ernestine, daughter of R. & M. RISELEY, died 9.3.1918, GENES ON SCREEN Vee Maddock aged 10 years. 22 Mary, wife of Henry Robert FOUND a couple of very useful sites full STUBBS, died [20?].12.1905, aged of links during my surfing. 71 years. http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/ireland.html 23 Rebbecca TAYLOR, died 28.12. A listing of ‘genealogical saints’, people [1925 or 1923]. who own books concerned with Irish 24 Wadea[?], Son of A & H N[ASSER], genealogy who have volunteered to look up died 29.7.[?]in 12th year. information in response to queries. 25 Hugh WALLACE, died 1.3.1900, A similar list for English resources appears at aged 72 years, http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/england.htm and Charles, infant son of above, l Books listed include old street directories, and Ann WALLACE, died family trees, electoral rolls, names and 16.7.1922, aged 72 years, coats of arms and a lot more. and Hugh WALLACE, son of The majority of genealogical information above, K.I.A. in France, 7.10.1916. on the net is not commercially associated, 26 Samuel Walter WOOD, died and sites such as the above just show how 28.11.1919, aged 64 years. far a little generosity can go. 27 [no name], died 22.5.1932, aged In the previous journal I suggested a list of 77 years. mailing lists for various names. Many of these lists were hosted as a community Notes on the above. 1 Tasmanian Pioneer Index [205/1898] age, service by larger corporations or educa- 53. tional institutes. Unfortunately one of the 4 TPI [685/1892], son of Peter Brown & main mail servers Annie Ekins, born Esperance, 20.6.1892. [email protected] and Ann Brown was formerly Hannah was spammed recently (that is, someone Ekins, TPI [492/1854] F. born Hobart 22.12.1853, therefore died 1908? sent thousands of email messages to it, 8 TPI [662/1881] Wm Fr. Dale born causing an overload). This server is no Esperance 21.11.1881, son of Elijah Dale longer operational and is offline indef- & Annie Berry. initely. Many of the several hundred lists and TPI [500/1899], Ella Vallie Dale born that were housed there are slowly finding Esperance, 12.12.1898, Dau. of Elijah & new homes, so please be patient and if you Catherine Annie Barry. 10 Ann Davis, according John Harper, she find a name on the list with a maiser died 10.8.1905. address, keep rechecking to see when a 24 The family name was Nasser, an earlier new location is posted. photo of this stone says ‘12 year’. http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/index.html 27 David Purves, relict of Agnes Purves. Irish Genealogical Society, International [These will appear on the updated edition (IGSI)—Certainly many other sites could of TAMIOT currently being prepared for use this as an example. Organised into publication which may be available by the ‘seekers links’ and ‘finders links’ which end of the year. There are discrepancies cover 70 pages of links and ‘discovery with some data so check all sources links.’ A wonderful resource list and I including O’Shea indexes—Ed.] don’t have any Irish connections—yet.
118 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 Dear ...
Myalla Uncle George so have not seen him for Tasmania years but his son Maurice has a daughter. June 24 I also have another niece now almost a year old & is not dad proud of them, the Dear Auntie Hilda, little boy is the apple of his eye and I only received Auntie Florries news simply runs over him. You know what this afternoon. She said the letter could these Grandfathers are like I suppose. He be opened by Dad so I read it & then is well, lives at Smithton Tasmania C/o wrote him. I wrote a letter to Granny & B. H. Williams Electrician, that is my you last January & have been expecting eldest Brother he has studied Electricity a reply. and was apprenticed to the trade for seven I was very grieved when I heard about years. Reg my next brother is in Granny. Although I never saw her I have Queensland at present cutting cane & seen her Photo & her letters have made picking cotton & sheperding sheep in me love her & want to see her. But that turns. He had never been out of was impossible. I was always proud of Tasmania before so it is quite an eye her & used to tell people of her. Dad opener for him. It is my third brother always says I am very much like her & Norm who is married. He has a very that always pleased me. Dad will feel good job forman of a big Saw mill at this as he was very fond of Granny & Smithton. They are doing very well for a often talked of how we would go home to young married couple. Colin is the England & see you all when he made his youngest boy. He has charge of a farm fortune. But that was not to be. You can about 5 miles from here. He is a big not imagine Auntie how sometimes Id strapping fellow. And as for me I live love to be in England to see the country with Gran Bramich & look after the in spring with the bluebells & cowslips house & the Post Office. Gran does some growing wild. Gran Bramich often tells of the office work so Im pretty well tied me about it & then my English blood down just now. I will never leave here calls & Id just long to see them. It seems while she is here. I am now 17 years, hard to be right out here away from you Colin 20, Norm 23, Reg 25, Bern 27, so all & worse still to never see Granny or we are all growing up even Dad who was be with her at her end. And Auntie I 60 last January 4th. know how you would feel with first Jean Well Auntie I will have to say & then your mother, for I lost my mother Goodbye for now as I have to go to the too & it still feels hard to me & brings office. Hoping to hear from you soon. I memorys when I think of her. But Gods am hoping as always to see you sometime Will be done. Its has to be. And we & that you are all well. know they are happy. Your loving niece I have been expecting to hear from Rita. W. you but now I understand your silence. Give my love to the other We do not have the chance of seeing Aunts & Uncles
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 119 A LITTLE OF COLONIAL TIMES RITA’S STORY & TASMANIAN 11 February 1851
RITTEN in the mid 1930s, this FIRE.— Last Saturday, between 11 W letter arrived on the editor’s desk and 12 o’clock, a fire took place from Mary Simmons of Birmingham, among those buildings situated England, in the hope of finding between Bathurst and Melville-streets, descendants of the letter writer’s family. and forming an angle with Mr. Mary found the letter only a few years Oliver’s public-house. The fire very ago amongst her late aunt’s possessions. soon rose high, and all the exertions that were employed to put it out were Unable to contain my curiosity, I checked for some time unavailing. At length the telephone directory and found a B. H. the Police engines, the Cornwall, the Williams listed in Wynyard. One call Tasmanian, the Derwent and Tamar, and there was Mrs Bern Williams, Rita’s and the Military engines were brought sister-in-law. As is often the case, I to play upon the volume of flame discovered Rita died only last year on which sometimes rose fully as high as 11 April 1996 in her 77th year. 50 feet. At about two o’clock the Since then I have heard from other family flames were extinguished. The fire members who told me Rita married commenced in a domicile at the rear of a shop occupied by a basket-maker, (14 April, year unknown) Wesley near Messrs. Waterhouse & Brother, Lawson, a bush worker who was later in Elizabeth-street. As usual, no one employed at the pulp mill in Burnie. knows how the fire commenced. Too They lived for some time in Upper great praise cannot be given to the Natone and raised three children, two regiment in garrison, and the crew of boys and a girl. Wesley died in 1975 and the “Havannah,” upon the occasion, Rita spent over twenty years working at for their voluntary aid in strangling the Wynyard General Hospital and the enemy. The estimated loss is not more nursing home. than £1000, though many houses were She never did get to see the bluebells and consumed. They were wooden cowslips growing wild in England but tenements chiefly, rotten from age. was able to visit at least one of her Mr. Whitney lost a considerable brothers while on a holiday in quantity of flour, and all of his Queensland. valuable pigeons. She was a ‘lovely lady,’ in the words of her niece. [Mr Oliver’s public house was the ‘George and Dragon,’ earlier known as the Hobart Branch President, Bryce Ward ‘Verandah House & Wine Vaults,’ on the remembers Bern Williams as a very north-eastern corner of Elizabeth and clever man, always inventing things, Bathurst Streets. Wonder what happened to especially parts for machinery. R.D. the people made homeless as a result of the fire?—Ed.]
120 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 TASMANIANA LIBRARY, STATE LIBRARY OF TASMANIA NEW ACQUISITIONS
This is a select list of books on history and genealogy which have been added to the Tasmaniana Library between early April and the end of June, 1997. They are mostly, but not all, new publications; the Tasmaniana Library often acquires older works which relate to Tasmania and which it does not already hold. The list has been kept as brief as possible; normally only author, title and the Tasmaniana Library’s reference number are given. If you would like further information about any of the books listed, please contact the Tasmaniana Library at 91 Murray Street, Hobart 7000 (telephone (03) 6233 7474, fax (03) 6233 7902). Further information is also available on TALIS, the State Library’s on-line information system. TALIS terminals are available in all city, and many branch, libraries throughout Tasmania. It is also possible to connect to TALIS through the State Library’s Home Page on the World Wide Web; its URL is http://www.tased.edu.au/library/library.htm Please note that, while all of these books are available for reference in the Tasmaniana Library, they are not available for loan (although some of them may be available in city and branch libraries).
Altman, Dennis, Defying gravity: a political life. (TL 306.766 ALT) Bates, Joseph, The autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates. (CRO 286.7 BAT) Boxall, George, An illustrated history of Australian bushrangers. (TLQ 364.30994 BOX) Brief history of West Pyengana 1900-1996, A. (TLPQ 994.682 BRI) Broadfield, Craig R. (Ed.), Historical images of central coast, Volume 2: Ulverstone & its people in 1893. (TLP 994.634 ULV) Brown, Bruce, Gatty: prince of navigators. (TL 629.13251 GAT) Bye, Ismay and Ellena Geeves and Merle Whittle, Norfolk to Huon and beyond: Clement and Sarah Reeve. (TLQ 929.2 REE) Clive Lucas, Stapleton and Partners Pty. Ltd., Woolmers Estate, Longford, Tasmania:conservation plan (4 volumes): Final report. (TLQ 363.690994621 CLI) Cloudsdale, Matthew A., Alanvale College 1975-1996. (TLQ 373.2380994611 ALA) Colman, Patricia Margaret, Just a simple soul. (TL 920.72 COL) Correy, Joe, What a pain in the neck. (TL 618. COR)
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 121 Dimmick, Leonard W., Cousins galore: the Walker family of Braeside, Tasmania. (TLQ 929.2 WAL) Duck, Sandra, Index of obituaries from Walch’s Tasmanian almanacs, the “red books”. (TLPQ 929.3946 IND) Duncombe, Kathy, Index to F. Oliver Gray’s “Recollections of North Bruny Island” and “Further recollections of North Bruny Island”. (TLP 994.651 IND) Evans, Kathryn, Convict sites Tasmania historical research project. (TLQ 363.6909946 EVA) Frankland, George, Five letters from George Frankland. (TL 994.602 FRA) Friends of Chauncy Vale Inc., Day dawn: Nan Chauncy’s home. (TLP 820.A FRI) Gardam, Faye, Sawdust, sails and sweat. (TLQ 994.632 GAR) Gardner, P. D., Names of Bass Strait. (TL 910.014 GAR) Garrett, Margaret, The Crosbys of Hawthornden: by one of them. (CROP 387.509946 CRO) Harris, Pat and Irene Schaffer, German immigrants arriving in Tasmania per “America” 1855: passengers’ lists, trades, births, marriages and deaths. (TLQ 929.3946 GER) Jermy, Pete and Michael Simco, Burnie, Wynyard and Circular Head on old picture postcards. (TLP 994.63 JER) Kepars, I., Tasmania (World Bibliographical Series, Volume 194). TLR 016.9946 TAS) Kerr, Greg, Lost Anzacs: the story of two brothers. (TLQ 355.0092 KER) Kociumbas, Jan, Australian childhood: a history. (TL 305.23 KOC) Kostoglou, Parry, Dawson’s Road: the first road to nowhere: an archaeological survey of the road and its features. (TLQ 363.690994628 KOS) Kostoglou, Parry, Historic timber-getting in the southern forests: statements of site significance and management recommendations. (TLQ 674.2099465 KOS) Launceston City Band, Centenary 1876-1976, Launceston City Band. (TCP 785.122 LAU) Luck, Nonus C., Looking back: Mowbray and Invermay. (TLP 994.611 LUC) Markham, S. F., and H. C. Richards, Directory of museums and art galleries in Australia and New Zealand. (1934 ed.) (TLQ 069.02594 DIR) Martin, Stephen, A history of Antarctica. (TLQ 998.9 MAR) Mawer, G. A., Most perfectly safe: the convict shipwreck disasters of 1833-42. (TL 994.02 MAW) Methodism in Burnie 1868-1968. (TLP 287.0994636 MET)
122 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 Montgomery, Henry, A generation of Montgomerys. (TL 920. MON) Moyes, John L., Exploring the Antarctic with Mawson and the men of the 1911-1914 expedition. (TLQ 998. MOY) Nash, Michael, Shipwrecks of the Furneaux group. (TL 910.452 NAS) National Trust of Australia (Tasmania). Southern Region, Register: classified and recorded buildings, places and objects, City of Hobart. (TLR 720.994661 NAT) Nyman, Lois, The West Tamar people: the story of the early settlement and its well- established families. (TL 994.61 NYM) Oatlands remembers. (Video tribute to the men and women of the former Oatlands Municipality who served their country during World War 2) (Videocassette) (TLVC 940.539463 OAT) Perry, T. M. and Dorothy F. Prescott, A guide to maps of Australia in books published 1780-1830. (TLR 016.91294 GUI) Pink, Kerry, Tullah remembered: the Farrell Mining Field, 1897-1997. (TLP 622.09946 PIN) Polding, John Bede, The letters of John Bede Polding, Volume 2, 1844-1860. (TLQ 262.120994 POL) Purcell, Marie, Dozens of cousins: a story of the O’Donnell and Purcell families 1841-1991. (TLQ 929.2 ODO) Scott, Margaret, Port Arthur: a story of strength and courage. (TL 364.1523 SCO) Smee, C. J., The pioneer register, Volume XXVI. (TLPQ 929.394 SME) Smee, C. J., The pioneer register, Volume XXVII. (TLPQ 929.394 SME) Tiberius, Blow, bugle, blow: memoirs: the 12 originals of the Latrobe Federal Band (established 1872). (TL 785.06294632 FIR) Tiberius, 1875. (A history of brass bands in Devonport) (TLP 784.9 FIR) Tiberius, More than a century. (A history of the City of Devonport Brass Band) (TL 784.9 TIB) Ulverstone Municipal Band, 25th anniversary of the Ulverstone Municipal Band: souvenir 1958 to 1983 with earlier history. (TLP 785.067 ULV)
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 123 Lost, Stolen or Strayed ...
EFINITELY LOST ... A lady has all died in Australia. Mary would be Dcontacted the Hobart branch with a delighted to hear from any descendants. sad, but not uncommon tale of woe, Mary Bennett, PO Box 212394 Oribi and wants it known to others to beware! 3ZO5 South Africa. This lady saw an advertisement in a local paper by a person willing to do family AN Nicholson has written to say that history research. Without checking any I Volume 3 in the series Log of Logs is credentials, the lady’s daughter gave the about to go to press and asks that any man $100 and her collection of papers further contributions relating to Australia, and family photographs. In return she New Zealand and the surrounding seas, received some photocopied material be sent to him promptly. Brief details of which was not relevant to her. This any logs, shipboard letters and diaries or smooth-talking gentleman persuaded our voyage narratives of any type, whether lady to part with another $100, and in original, a copy or published version, return she got more of the same irrelevant acquired since early 1993 (or not already material. Now the ‘researcher’ has listed in Log of Logs Vols 1 or 2) would moved to New South Wales and written be appreciated. requests for the return of her research and Information desired is name of vessel photographs have been ignored. She (and Master if available), year or actual wants other people to be careful and to dates of voyage, ports of origin and check with their local family history destination, type of narrative, by whom, societies for recommendations of people and whereabouts/reference call number. undertaking research for others. Ian’s address is: I. H. Nicholson, 18 Wunnunga Crescent Yaroomba OBART Branch Research has Queensland 4573. (07) 54 462142 H received an interesting letter forwarded from Mary Bennett of OST someone? Gone to the gold South Africa who is researching the L fields or perhaps somewhere else in Bennett and Gilbert families. Aimée Victoria? Helen Doxford Harris has Guilbert/Gilbert (born 25 December compiled three new indexes—‘Index to 1842) became the concubine of a Sir John Tasmanians in the Victoria Police Bennett, 1814–1893, clockmaker and Gazette 1853–1893’, ($10.00 plus $1.00 sheriff, presumably in England. Aimée postage within Australia), ‘Index to Gilbert died in Australia in August 1931 Candidates for the Victorian Police, and Mary believes some of her Part Two: 1873–1893’, ($15.00 plus descendants are in Tasmania. Two older $1.00 postage within Australia) and children died overseas, but Violet Bennett ‘Index to Candidates for the Victorian Gilbert 1869–1931, Rose Bennett Gilbert Police, Part Three: 1852–1893’, ($7.50 1873–1962, Horace Bennet Gilbert 1876– plus $1.00 postage within Australia). 1900, Gerald Bennett Gilbert 1877–1954 and Douglas Bennett Gilbert 1884–1968, All available from Harriland Press,. PO Box 92 Forest Hill Victoria 3131.
124 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 ... and Found
Irish-Australian Studies, Papers Anyone with an interest in the ’Forty- delivered at the Eighth Irish-Australian Five, the Jacobite Movement, Conference, held in Hobart July 1995, Eighteenth Century Scotland or edited by Richard Davis, Jennifer Livett, Military History will be interested in Anne-Maree Whitaker and Peter Alan Gibson Macpherson’s A Day’s Moore—available from Crossing Press, March to Ruin, a documentary narrative PO Box 1137 Darlinghurst NSW 2010. of the Badenoch Men in the ‘Forty-Five Other titles include Irish Convict Lives, and biography of Col Ewan Macpherson edited by Bob Reece; Poverty to Promise, of Cluny, 1706–1764. Ewan of Cluny the Monteagle Emigrants 1838–58, by was a significant figure in the events Christopher O’Mahony and Valerie leading to the Rising, a Highland colonel Thompson; A Cause of Trouble? Irish active in the rising itself, and a Jacobite Nuns and English Clerics by M. M. K. agent and exile in its tragic aftermath. It O’Sullivan. also highlights a regimental history—the An ‘exchange’ copy of the Register of first for any of the Jacobite regiments One-Name Studies, 1997, has arrived. involved in the Rising—complete with This is the thirteenth edition, again on an annotated muster roll of the microfiche and will be available at Badenoch men. Published by the Clan Hobart branch library. Macpherson Association in 1996 it can be ordered from Ewen S. L. Macpherson, Norma Jones writes “Did Tasmania have Talla-Shee, Straloch, Enochdhu, many Cornish immigrants?” I have a Blairgowrie Scotland PH10 7PH or wealth of material on all parishes in Andrew Macpherson, Curator Clan Cornwall. If any members are interested Macpherson Museum, Newtonmore in Cornish names I could be of some Scotland PH20 1DE. An order form can help. As this is her hobby, Norma will be down loaded from: gladly send a copy of information in http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/~macphers regard to a surname, no charge, if you on/daysmrch.html send a SAE with your request: N. Jones, 25 Police Rd Mulgrave VIC 3170. Newsletter No 2 May 1997 of Ireland Interested in Northern Ireland? Sheelagh 1798 Australia, celebrating the Proctor has an Ordnance Survey map for bicentennial of the Irish Rebellion of sale. Sheet 29 ‘The Mournes’ (the south 1798, contains information of their 1798 of County Down). (03) 6272 6426. heroes’ database, 1798 descendants’ The Australian Institute Genealogy database and research services. Tours to (AIGS) offers a research service— Ireland in 1998 are being organised and $10.00 per hour for members, $20.00 for the counties of Wexford and Wicklow are non-members. Brochure should be planning commemorative events. Further available in your branch library or write information from PO Box 1137 to AIGS, PO Box 339 Blackburn VIC Darlinghurst NSW 2010 or phone/fax 3130 enclosing a SAE. (02) 9699 3395.
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 125 THE FEDERATION OF FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES ELIZABETH SIMPSON AWARD
S announced in the last issue of Chairman, Treasurer and me began the Tasmanian Ancestry, the June Federation. Most of the ‘work’ was done 1996 edition, produced by Anne by me as I was the one who received and A Bartlett and her panel in answered all the mail—but my Chairman Launceston, was runner up for the 1996 kept in really close touch and monitored Elizabeth Simpson Award. This award my progress! When we began there was was introduced in 1979 by the Federation a mere handful of FH Societies in UK of Family History Societies. and I set out to create one in each After searching through old copies of county—this was my dream and of the Family History News and Digest in course eventually not only was this Hobart Branch Library for realised but in many information on the award, counties there are and especially of Eliza- now several groups— beth Simpson, a letter to Lancashire - Yorkshire - the Federation was the London—all have many next step. As a result, groups being so large they Elizabeth has generously eventually took the written a letter detailing meeting to the people the origins of the award. instead of expecting the people to come miles and ‘Many years ago I was miles to the meetings! sitting in a waiting room Later I began to recruit and picked up a copy of The original HARO cartoon, now Elizabet h overseas groups too! one of our broadsheet Simpson’s logo and used as the design for the Elizabeth Simpson Award heavy Sunday newspapers Someone suggested (the Observer) in which there were a run that an E. S. Award be of letters from folk saying they were now organised as a tribute to me when I retired and had nothing to do and were passed the secretaryship over to the next BORED! I had only recently begun to person and it was decided that as I had ‘do’ my own family history and so been a successful editor of the North penned a letter to the editor suggesting Cheshire FHS and was keenly interested that these bored folk take up family in the need for a really GOOD magazine, history as it would give them a really the award should be for the best worthwhile hobby! This letter was magazine. So now each year societies printed the following week in the paper submit a mag of their own choice to and set around the HARO cartoon ... I compete with all their peers for the ‘bought’ the original from him ... and award. have used it ever since as my logo. Then came the Federation of Family When I was in the Isle of Man on History Societies—of which I was the holiday and research one year ... a dear founding secretary. Three of us—a friend who works in pewter agreed to reproduce the Haro drawing in pewter and hence the prize which is given out each
126 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 year—it is a plaque in pewter ... We used to by the judges. There were thirty-nine send it abroad—but the Australians and entries for the award in 1996—the New Zealanders won it so often that it Launceston panel can be justly proud of began to look decidedly travel weary and it the result. Unfortunately the Powys FHS was then agreed to house it in the Society do not exchange journals so if anybody of Genealogists rooms whenever an has a copy we would love to see one! overseas society won it but UK societies would continue to be allowed to have it if Past winners: they so wished. It is returned each year 1979 North Cheshire FHS for the next winner of course. 1980 Genealogical Society of Victoria This year—for the first time—I was 1981 Devon FHS actually sent the last 6 mags to reach the final, to read for myself, and hence I have 1982 Birmingham and Midland Society actually read your Tasmanian magazine for Genealogy & Heraldry and found it to be well worth the 1983 North West Kent FHS consideration which it was given. The 1984 Cornwall FHS standard is extremely high these days and 1985 West Surrey FHS this is a real joy to me as I am keenly 1986 Genealogical Society of Victoria interested in the worth of the magazine to 1987 Manchester and Lancashire FHS your members—for some it is the only contact and thus MOST important. From 1988 until 1992 the award was ... I wish you all out there continued for the best article. success with your endeavours and hope 1988 Douglas J. Browning that you will perhaps win the award out- Genealogical Society of Victoria right for yourselves one day—you are 1989 Donald Hansen well on the way!’ Genealogical Research Institute of New Zealand The first meeting of the Federation was held in June 1974 when fifteen and Judith Russill societies were present. There are now Gwent FHS over 200 societies in the Federation. 1990 Donald Hansen Elizabeth Simpson, the Federation’s first NZ Society of Genealogists secretary, later became a vice president 1991 Marjory Harper and then a Fellow of the Society of Ontario Society Genealogists. 1992 North West Kent FHS Although the award has changed over Editor: Mari Alderman the years, it is currently presented 1993 NZ Society of Genealogists annually to the society whose journal has, Editor: Vivien Parker in the opinion of the panel of judges, 1994 Buckingham FHS made the best contribution to family Editor: Alan Dell history during the past twelve months. Each journal’s contribution in each of 1995 Lincolnshire FHS three key areas—articles, information and Editor: Tom Wood presentation, is taken into consideration 1996 Powys FHS, Cronicl R.D.
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 127 BOOK REVIEWS
Computers For Genealogy, A guide, by The Genealogical Services Directory Phil Young; originally by Jan 1997: A pocket guide to services Worthington for the Society of Australian available for family historians, Genealogists, 120 Kent Street Sydney researchers and genealogists, published NSW 2000. A5, soft cover, 128pp by G R Specialist Information Services, $14.95 + $2 p&p. This comprehensive 33 Nursery Road, Nether Poppleton York and well thought out book is YO2 6NN, A5 soft cover, 70pp, £3.50 inc recommended to anyone considering p&p. This directory is the first issue of buying a computer or computer program what is planned to be an annual for genealogy. Covering the basics, from publication. Everyone interested in what is needed in a machine, to reviews English research will find this book a of several programs available, it provides ready source of helpful information. For a good basis for your research. Lists and the beginner there is a short section on contact details, as well as web addresses ‘Starting Your Family History’, followed are supplied for many programs, covering by several pages of contact addresses of several different operating systems. individuals and businesses offering (Mac, Amiga, DOS etc.) genealogical research in specified The reviews are detailed, averaging two counties, and of the usual support pages, each with additional diagrams and services (e.g. photographic restoration, sample printouts from each program. computer supplies and genealogy They appear to have been written by software, microfiche reader etc.) The last people who actually use these programs, part of the book is devoted to a list of many including not only the glowing high addresses for record offices, archives and points of their chosen program, but also repositories, as well as those libraries and the faults. Also included is a detailed museums with relevant facilities, all section on communications, covering conveniently grouped under county or bulletin boards, the internet and details of other headings. It is rare to find such a basic requiremrnts to connect and use comprehensive list of addresses in the these facilities. one affordable publication; a real bonus, Scanners and their details are also especially for genealogists not living in discussed along with explanations of a lot Britain. of the techno babble encountered when Colleen Read looking to purchase and use a scanner. An added advantage is that this is an Chippendale’s Australian produced book which means Family History Research Service the information is for the large part wish to notify they have relevant to most of the country, including increased their charges from details of many computer related $15.00 to $17.00 genealogy groups. 65 Brook Road Vee Maddock South Brentford Middlesex TW8 0NP England (See June journal, Vol.18 No.1, page 67)
128 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 EXCHANGE JOURNALS & NEWSLETTERS—OVERSEAS
ENGLAND Oxfordshire FHS Berkshire FHS Berkshire Family Historian Oxfordshire Family Historian Birmingham and Midland SG & H Shropshire FHS Shropshire FH Journal Midland Ancestor Somerset & Dorset FHS Bristol & Avon FHS The Greenwood Tree Bristol & Avon FHS Journal Suffolk FHS Suffolk Roots Buckinghamshire FHS Origins Sussex FH Group Sussex Family Historian Calderdale (Yorks) FHS The Scrivener Westminster & Cent Middlesex Greentrees Cambridgeshire FHS Wiltshire FHS Wiltshire Cambridgeshire Journal Woolwich & District FHS Nth Cheshire FHS Nth Cheshire FH Journal Woolwich & District Channel Is FHS Channel Islands Journal Yorkshire Arch Soc FH Cleveland FHS Cleveland FHS Journal Yorkshire Family Historian Cornwall FHS Cornwall Journal IRELAND Cumbria FHS Newsletter Irish Family Society Irish Family History Derbyshire FHS Derbyshire Branch News North of Ireland FHS North Irish Roots Devon FHS Devon Family Historian NEW ZEALAND Dorset FHS Dorset Journal NZ Society of Gen The NZ Genealogist East Surrey FHS East Surrey Journal NZ FHS Family Tree Essex Soc for FH Essex Family Historian SCOTLAND Folkstone & Dist FH Kentish Connection Borders FHS Borders FH Soc Magazine Hampshire GS Hampshire Family Historian Glasgow & W Scot FHS Herefordshire FHS Hereford Journal Glasg & West of Scot Hertford Family & Population History Soc Scottish Gen Soc Scottish Genealogist Hertfordshire People Tay Valley FHS Hillingdon FHS Hillingdon Magazine Tay Valley Family Historian Isle of Man FHS Fraueyn As Banglaneyn UNITED KINGDOM London & Nth Middlesex FH Metropolitan Catholic FHS Catholic Ancestry Kent FHS Kent Journal FFHS Family History News & Digest NW Kent FHS North West Kent Institute Heraldic G Studies Family History Lancashire FH & Heraldry Soc of Genealogists Genealogists Magazine Lancaster Journal WALES Leicestershire & Rutland FHS Newsletter Glamorgan FHS Glamorgan Journal Liverpool & SW Lancashire Gwynedd FHS Gwynedd Roots Liverpool Family Historian BELGIUM Vlaamse Stam Manchester & Lancashire FHS CANADA Ontario Toronto Br GS Manchester Genealogist Toronto Tree W Middlesex FHS West Middlesex Journal CANADA Saskatchewan GS Norfolk GS Norfolk Ancestor Saskatchewan Bulletin Northamptonshire FHS Footprints USA Int Soc for British Gen & FH Nottinghamshire FHS Cleveland Newsletter Nottingham FHS Journal The collection is housed at Hobart Branch Northumberland & Durham FHS Library but items are available for inter-branch Northumber &Durham Journal loan. Request a loan through your local branch Ormskirk & Dist FHS and the journals will be forwarded to the Ormskirk Family Historian branch for use in their library.
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ALL NORTHERN TERRITORY Aus Inst of Genealogical Study Gen Soc of NT Progenitor The Genealogist QUEENSLAND Fellowship of First Fleeters Cairns & District FHS Origins First Fleeters Newsletter Central Coast FHG The Muster Soc of Aust Genealogists Descent Central Qld Gen Ass Cent Qld Genealogist 1788–1820 Pioneer Assoc Pioneer Gazette Darling Downs FHS The Gazette Journal ACT FH Assoc Nth Qld Relatively Speaking Heraldry & GS of Canberra Genealogical Soc of Qld Generation Ancestral Searcher Gladstone Branch GSQ Time Line NEW SOUTH WALES Gold Coast & Albert Gen Soc Rootes Bega Valley GS The Valley Genealogist Gold Coast FHRes Gr The Family Historian Bland District FHS The Mallee Stump Gympie Ances Res Soc The Researcher Blue Mts FHS The Explorers Tree Ipswich Gen Soc Bremer Echoes Botany Bay FHS The Endeavour Maryborough District FHS Forebears Burwood-Drummoyne & Dist Ances-tree Mount Isa FHS Mount Isa Journal Cape Banks FHS Kith & Kin Proserpine Branch GSQ Branching Out Casino & District FHS The Crossing Place Qld FHS Qld Family Historian Coffs Harbour & District Genie-Allergy Sthn Suburbs Branch Sthn Suburbs Scroll Cowra FH Group Eagle Eye SOUTH AUSTRALIA Dubbo District FHS Western Connections SA Gen & Heraldry S Aus Genealogist Goondiwindi & Dist FHS Goondiwindi South East FH Group Griffith Gen & Historical Soc Ibis Links South East Aus Newsletter Gwydir FHS Insearch VICTORIA Hawkesbury FHS Hawkesbury Crier Bendigo Regional GS Golden Links Illawarra FH Group Illawarra Branches Descendants of Convicts Grp The Mail Kiama Ancest Research Soc Khanterintee Geelong FH Group GSV Pivot Tree Lithgow & Dist FH Lithgow Pioneer Press Genealogical Society of Vic Inc Ancestor Liverpool & District FHS Links ‘n’ Chains Hastings Valley FHS Footsteps Manning Wallamba FHS Fig Tree Lakes Entrance GS Fiche-ing Around Milton-Ulladulla GS Pigeon House Tidings Mornington Pen FHS Peninsula Past Times Nepean FHS Timespan Swan Hill G & HS Mallee Roots Orange FH Group Orange Family History Vic Genealogists Using Computers Parkes & Dist Hist Soc Parkes & District VICGUM Richmond–Tweed FHS The Cedar Log Wangaratta GS Wangaratta Threads Shoalhaven FHS Time Traveller Yarram Gen Group Newsletter Singleton FHS Patrick Plains Gazette WESTERN AUSTRALIA Tilligerry FH Group Lemon Tree WA Gen Soc Western Ancestor Wagga W & Dist FHS The above references are brief, but they should Murrumbidgee Ancestor be helpful if one is interested in a particular Wyong FH Group Tree of Life area. All journals and newsletters are worthy Young & District FHG of examination and many a surprise will The Lambing Flat Leader delight the diligent! C.O.
130 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 From the Exchange Journals Thelma McKay
‘Banished to Canada’ by Perry Snow in ‘A History of Adoption’ by Lynne the East Surrey Family History journal, Cowley in Berkshire Family Historian, Vol. 19, No.2, June 1996, pp.13–17. The the journal of the Berkshire Family search for the parentage of Frederick History Society. Vol.20, No.1, September George Snow led to the records of the 1996, pp.6–10. This very interesting Child Emigration Scheme in England. article on adoption describes not only Over 100,000 children were sent to where to look for adoption records but Canada from England between 1880– also the sort of information they provide. 1930. Frederick Snow had corresponded Just some of the subjects covered are for sixty years with the children’s society ‘Why Adoption’; ‘Registration’; in an effort to find any information about ‘Certificates’ and ‘Adoption Agencies’, his family. His son Perry Snow in plus the many Child Adoption Acts in Canada continued the search to uncover force over the years. this sad story of his father. The Child ‘Archivista—News & Views from the Emigration Scheme also sent 15,000 NSW State Archives—Records of children to Australia, New Zealand and Seamen & Engine Drivers’ in South Africa. This scheme continued Progenitor Vol.15, No.2, June 1996, until the 1960s; many children believed journal of the Genealogical Society of they were orphans. Northern Territory, pp.43–45. This ‘Left Holding the Baby or Some New article describes and lists records for Zealand Illegitimacies 1877–1925’ by tracing seamen which can be found in the Derek Griffis. The New Zealand NSW State Archives. A certificate of Genealogist September–October 1996, competency contains much valuable Vol.27, No.241, pp.296–97, journal of information about an ancestor. Also the New Zealand Society of Genealogists. featured are records of engine drivers for While searching the NZ Police Gazettes the years 1902–54. the author came across many notices by ‘Wrockwardine Parish Papers’ by mothers of illegitimate children, seeking Beryl Brown in the Shropshire Family the alleged fathers for maintenance. The History journal September 1996, Vol.17, fathers’ names were listed in the indexes No.3, pp.77–80. A collection of of these gazettes but not the mothers’. documents recently deposited in the Derek Griffis has compiled and cross Shropshire Record Office had been found referenced these, and the computerised in a disused cupboard in the Wrockward- list has revealed many interesting facts, ine Parish Church. These documents e.g. mothers having children to different include settlement certificates 1657– fathers. Some of these children could 1796, removal orders 1690–1844 plus still be alive today and caution is apprenticeships, poor house records, and requested before contacting Derek at 94 a copy of the 1831 census. Examples of Ngaio Road Waikanae NZ. the various records are given.
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 131 ‘Tracing Marriages in Durham and ‘The Nation’s Memory—The Story of Northumberland—A Beginners Guide, the Public Record Office’ by Susan B. Part II–Before 1837’ by Magnus Carter Lumas in the newsletter of the in the journal of the Northumberland & International Society for British Durham Family History Society Vol.21, Genealogy and Family History, Vol.18, No.2, Summer 1996, pp.56–59. In a No.3, July–September 1996, pp.33–36 Questions and Answers format, this and 39. The records held by the Public article discusses various problems in Record Office in England date back to the tracing marriages in Durham and Domesday Book. An explanation of their Northumberland districts before 1837. origins is given in this article by Susan The questions include ‘What is Boyd’s Lumas who has been employed at the Marriage Index?’; ‘Tell me about PRO for twenty-two years. By 1851 new Parish Registers’ and ‘What about premises were needed and the foundation Transcripts?’ Answers include address- stone for the repository was laid in es, dates of surviving parish registers and Chancery Lane. where they are deposited. ‘Wylam Removal Orders’ in the journal ‘Lost an Ancestor between 1855 and of the Northumberland & Durham 1880? Try Barrow-in-Furness’ in The Family History Society Vol.21, No.3, Ormskirk & District Family Historian, Autumn 1996, p.95. The Northumber- the journal of the Ormskirk & District land Record Office hold records relating Family History Society, August 1996, to removal orders. A list of cases from No.12, p.12. After the discovery of iron 1821–51 is featured. This contains ore, the small village of Barrow in names, dates, parish of origin and where England expanded between 1855 and sent. The original records include more 1880 to an industrial town with over information and the reference is supplied. 50,000 people. A shipyard and steel ‘Oh Gill, this was Hell On Earth’—‘A works were constructed, and this building Register of British and Dominion industry brought many workers with their Servicemen Killed at Gallipoli 1915– families to the town for the project. 16’ pp.14–17 by Patrick Gariepy, 3966 ‘Some Sussex Women Who Strayed’ Robin Ave, Eugene Oregon 97402, USA Parts 3 & 4, by Brian Roser in Sussex 541-461-4728 in The Norfolk Ancestor, Family Historian Vol.12, No 3, Vol.1, No.1, September 1996, the journal September, pp.106–8 & No.4, pp.150–55 of the Norfolk Family History Society. December 1996. Two more articles in The title of this article was quoted from a this series by Brian Roser on ‘Women letter sent by a member of the Auckland Who Strayed’. Caroline alias Hopper, Mounted Rifles from his hospital bed in neé Butterworth and Sarah Bell neé England to a friend in New Zealand Elliott both convicted in Sussex and during 1916. Born in Australia to transported to VDL are featured in Part 3. German parents, he reversed his surname The life of Mary Ann Laing (neé? Ann from Trenue to Eunert in order to enlist. Lownde) as a convict is described in A register is being compiled of over Part 4. Many names of people to whom 42,000 men who died at Gallipoli; to date Mary Ann was assigned are mentioned 20,000 servicemen have been recorded throughout this article. with as much information as possible
132 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 included for each person. The author ‘Book Reviews—Bound For Van intends to publish the register in sections Diemen’s Land’ by John Howard in the e.g. New Zealand; Australia and is Cleveland Family History Society journal interested in receiving any information on October 1996, Vol.6, No.8, p.9. M. S. these men. Thompson has reviewed the book ‘Did any of your forbears Tread The ‘Bound For Van Diemen’s Land’ the Boards?’ by Murray Brazier in the East story of the voyage and life on board the Gilmore from England to VDL in 1843. Surrey Family History Society September The passengers and crew (place of birth 1996 journal, Vol.19, No.3, pp.32–35. included) are listed, also names of the From his research for an ancestor who convicts and dates of conviction. was a Music Hall artist, the author gives a good insight into the different Two articles in Metropolitan the London & North Middlesex Family History organisations holding relevant records. Society journal October 1996, Vol.19, Contact addresses are supplied. No.1. The Dorset Family History Society’s 1 ‘Burial Index Project’ p.12–13. September 1996 journal Vol.9, No.4 has Overviews this very interesting national a Crime & Punishment Theme. Some project to transcribe burial entries from of the articles included are ‘Life in parish registers 1812–1837. Dorchester Gaol 1816’; ‘Dorset 2 ‘A Call to Arms, Soldiers’ Labourers join Captain Swing’; ‘A documents of the Great War’ p.25–26. Calendar of the Prisoners in the Details information on the first batch of County Gaol at Dorchester, 10 January records being made available at the PRO, 1831’; ‘Tolpuddle, a Mockery of Kew pertaining to British WW1 soldiers Justice ...’ and ‘Transported’. This last and non-commissioned officers. article relates to early research on convict ‘London to Hobart—1836. A Journal William Lodder who arrived in VDL per of Samuel Elliott’ by Walter Sutherland Arab in 1834. in The Pivot Tree the Geelong Family ‘St Teath—The Final Parish’ by Ian History Group journal October 1996, Dunn in the Cornwall Family History No.51, pp.8–14. A transcript of the Society journal No.81, September 1996, journey from London to VDL on the pp.14 & 16. This article relates how emigrant ship William Metcalfe in 1836 invaluable parish registers (1558–1994) written by passenger Samuel Elliott. His and other church records for St Teath wife Mary and their four children Eliza, have been finally deposited for safe Caroline, John and Betsy accompanied keeping with the Cornwall Record Office. him. The names of several families, and Also in this journal is an item in the passengers who died on the voyage, are Cornwall Record Office News section mentioned. advising that microfiche copies of every Exchange journals are held at Hobart ancient parish in Cornwall are now Branch Library and may be borrowed available for research. The CRO accepts through local branches. postal enquiries.
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TASMANIA present. Enquiries Graham Rae Unless otherwise notified, all Tasmanian (03) 6267 4503 or Joyce Hocking Historical Research Association (THRA) (03) 6267 4665 Meetings take place in the Royal Society Room, Custom House, Tasmanian 11 November—THRA Museum and Art Gallery, Macquarie Alexander Hume (1848–1925): Street, Hobart starting at 8.00 p.m. Newspaperman and Historical Bower Bird, Dr Richard Ely. 9 September—THRA Forgotten Factory: The George Town 9 December—THRA Members’ Night. Female Factory, Professor Campbell 26 January 1998 MacKnight and Ms Diane Phillips. Start of the Tall Ships Australia race from Sydney to Hobart with about 100 vessels. 4 October ‘Hobart’s History—the last 200 years’. 1 February 1998 The Professional Historians Association Finish of the Tall Ships Australia race in Tasmania are holding a conference in the Derwent River. conjunction with the Hobart City Council at the Centre for the Arts, University of 7 February 1998 Tasmania. Coordinator, Kathy Evans The Van Diemen’s Land Circum- (03) 6239 0333. Cost—$30.00 or $20.00 navigation 1998 following the Tall Ships concession—all welcome. event.
11–12 October INTERSTATE AND ‘Trades, Traders, and Trading’. Tasmanian Local History Societies OVERSEAS Fourth Biennial Conference, Reece High 3–6 September School, Devonport, Tasmania. Potential ‘Unlock Your Heritage,’ Conference of speakers welcome. Please contact Devon The Federation of Genealogical Societies Historical Society Inc., PO Box 173 at Dallas, Texas. Details from: Dallas Devonport Tasmania 7310. Genealogical Society, PO Box 12648 Dallas TX 75225–0648 USA. 14 October—THRA Art of memory: The Portrait in Van 3–7 September Diemen’s Land, Mr Paul Paffen. ‘Faith, Hope and Charity’, Eighth British Family History Conference 8 November organized by the FFHS at York. Woodbridge Regatta. A Celebration of Information from: The Joint Conference Maritime Woodbridge—Yesterday and Organizers, C/- 2 Florence Road Today. It will include water and shore Harrogate North Yorkshire HG2 0LD on activities to contrast the past with the receipt of SAE or IRCs.
134 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 19–20 September Family History Societies, hosted by the Timekeepers: Forging Links in Local Newcastle Family History Society Inc., at Studies. The First National Local Mayfield Ex-Services Club, 58 Hanbury Studies Conference to be held at South Street Mayfield. Speakers, bookstalls, Perth Heritage House, Perth Western displays and demonstrations. Further Australia by the Australian Library and details from Conference Secretary, Information Services. Contact: Margaret Newcastle Family History Society Inc., Pember, Department of Information PO Box 189 Adamstown NSW 2289. Studies Curtin University of Technology GPO Box U1987 Perth WA 6845. Email: December 1997 [email protected] One-day workshop at the ANU, The Australian Immigrant in the 20th 22–28 September Century: Searching Neglected Sources, Third Irish Genealogical Congress: St the fifth seminar in the series in the Patrick’s College Maynooth Kildare. Visible Immigrants series. Contact Contact IGC Committee, C/- National Anthea Bundock, History Program, RSSS Archives, Bishop Street Dublin 8 Ireland. ANU Canberra ACT 0200 or email [email protected] 10–12 October Computers and Genealogy conference May 1998 at the Old Castlemaine Gaol, Victoria, 3rd Victorian State Conference on Family organised by Victorian GUM Inc. History to be held in Melbourne. Proposed subjects include ‘Introduction to Computers and Genealogy’, various 27 September–1 October 2000 genealogy packages available including Let Records Speak, the 9th Australasian shareware, CD-ROMs, digital imaging, Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry at cameras, scanning, printing options, University of Western Australia, Perth publishing options, together with up-to- Western Australia. date information on Bulletin Boards and the Internet. Residential conference attendees will have the unique experience Archives Office of Tasmania 77 Murray Street of spending the night in accommodation which would have once been at ‘the SATURDAY OPENING Governor’s pleasure’. Numbers limited. The Archives Office will be opening on a Registration forms from Victorian GUM number of Saturdays for a trial period Inc., 5th Floor 252 Swanston Street for the financial year 1997/98. Melbourne VIC 3000. The hours of opening will be from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. on each of the 11—12 October Saturdays listed below: Central Highlands Historical Association 19 July 1997 17 January 1998 Inc. presents The Annual History Fair. 23 August 1997 21 February 1998 The Army Ranger Barracks, Curtis Street 27 September 1997 21 March 1998 Ballarat, 10.00 a.m.–4.00 p.m. 1 November 1997 18 April 1998
13 December 1997 30 May 1998 24–25–26 October Ian Pearce—State Archivist—June 1997 A Journey of Discovery, the Annual Conference of the NSW Association of
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 135 PROJECTS REPORT—21 JUNE 1997
This shows the status of all known projects being undertaken by branches and individuals. Members are encouraged to notify the coordinator of any project to avoid duplication of work. Project Status Burnie Branch Published References to Names of Early Settlers, Index to Ongoing BDMs from The North Western Chronicle, Index to Completed BDMs from The Wellington Times, Index to Completed BDMs from The West Coast News, Index to Completed BDMs from The Zeehan & Dundas Herald, Index to Completed BDMs from The Banner, Index to Completed BDMs from The North West Post, Index to Completed BDMs from The Mt Lyell Standard and Strahan Gazette, Index to Completed BDMs from The Leven Lever, Index to Completed BDMs from The Emu Bay Times, Index to Completed BDMs from The Devon Herald, Index to Completed BDMs from The Deloraine—Westbury Advertiser, Index to Completed BDMs from Coast News, Index to Completed BDMs from The Circular Head Chronicle, Index to Ongoing BDMs from The Advocate, –1960, Index to Ongoing Cemetery Indexes Ongoing Devonport Branch The Advocate—Personal Announcements 1980– , Index to Ongoing: 1995–1996 published BDMs in The North West Post 1887–1916, Index to Ongoing: 1901–1905 published Cemetery Indexes Ongoing Hobart Branch Accession list of books held in Hobart Branch Library Ongoing Australians of the 3rd Regt in the NZ Maori Wars, 1863–64, Index to On computer Cemeteries of Southern Tasmania Vol. 1 - Woodbridge published Family File Index Completed Hobart St Mary’s Hospital Registers 1841–1862, Index to Published Microform held in Hobart Branch Library, Index to Ongoing Newspaper cuttings in scrap books held in library, Index to Current O’Shea Index to The Mercury—Births Deaths and Marriages—Pre 1900 Published O’Shea Index to The Mercury— Births 1900– Ongoing: 1900–1930 published O’Shea Index to The Mercury—Deaths 1900– Ongoing: 1900–1920 published O’Shea Index to The Mercury—Marriages 1900– Ongoing: 1900–1930 published Surnames in manuscripts held at Branch Library, Index of Ongoing Tasmanians mentioned in footnotes of Bean’s books on WW1, Index to On computer Transcribe and index record books of P. J. Keating Current Whitton Index—Computerise index of BDMs from The Mercury pre–1900 Published
136 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 Huon Branch Births from The Huon and Derwent Times Ongoing Launceston Branch BDMs in the Launceston Examiner 1900– , Index to Ongoing: 1900–1950 published BDMs in The Cornwall Chronicle 1835–1880, Index to Ongoing: 1835–1850 published Northern Tasmanian Cemeteries Ongoing: Lilydale and Nabowla published Passenger arrivals and departures from shipping columns in early Launceston newspapers, Index to Ongoing: 1829–1840 published Private Apprentices—Absconders 1860–1883, Joyce Purtscher Published BDMs in The Mercury 1991, Index to, Morris Lansdell Ongoing Index to BDMs, Inquest Drownings, Accidents, etc. from The Colonial Times The Hobart Town Courier and The Hobart Town Gazette—1860, Anne Bartlett Ongoing: 1816–1846 published Births in the Southern Star, Wally Short Completed Boys and Girls in Tasmanian Industrial Schools and Reformatories, Joyce Purtscher Published Chelsea Pensioners from the AJCP reels, W022, 1844–1880, Index to, Grahame Thom Ongoing Children in the Queens Orphanage 1828–1863, Index to, J. Purtscher Published Deaths/Burials in Tasmania 1803–1840, Index to, Alex Buchanan Published German immigrants on the America, Index to, Pat Harris Published Hill Street Burial Ground, Rosemary Davidson Published Infants at the Queens Orphanage 1851–1863, Index to, J. Purtscher Published Juveniles requiring Education, Thelma McKay Published Land Grants Register 1824–1832, Thelma McKay Published Marriages in Tasmania 1803–1830, Index to, Thelma McKay Published Marriages in the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches, Index to, Maureen Martin Ongoing Masters and Crew Agreements 1850–1860, Index to, Colleen Read Published Mathinna from beginning to 1916, Charmaine Lowe ? News Items about WW1 personnel in Weekly Courier, Index to, W. K. Knolle Current? News Items about WW11 personnel in The Examiner, Index to, W. K. Knolle Current Passengers, etc. on Trade Wind immigrant ship 1858, Index to, Patricia Quarry Completed Perkins in Tasmania, Index to, Bev and Bill Perkins Ongoing Photographs of WW1 servicemen and women in the Tasmanian weekly magazines, Wendy Knolle Vol. 1 Weekly Courier: published Vol. 2 Tasmanian Times: published Return of free men, Norfolk Island, 1794, Thelma McKay Spouses, Witnesses and Informants 1803–1840, Index to, Alex Buchanan ? Tasmanian Ancestry Index, Denise McNeice Ongoing The Sick and the Poor in Tasmania 1870, Irene Schaffer and Joyce Purtscher Published Top of the World Swimming Club, Leonie Carpenter Ongoing Compiled by Anne Bartlett, Publications Coordinator
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 137 LIBRARY NOTES
St Catherine’s House Index Roster
18/8/1997 17/11/1997 23/2/1998 18/5/1998 17/8/98 14/11/1997 20/2/1998 15/5/1998 14/8/1998 20/11/98 1868 1878 Launceston Huon Hobart Devonport Burnie 1879 1889 Burnie Launceston Huon Hobart Devonport 1890 1900 Devonport Burnie Launceston Huon Hobart 1901 1911 Hobart Devonport Burnie Launceston Huon 1912 1922 Huon Hobart Devonport Burnie Launceston
GRIFFITH’S VALUATION SERIES All microfiche received and processed by the next executive meeting will be placed in the back of the drawers containing the 1879–1889 St Catherine’s Index microfiche and will commence their circulation at Burnie.
Entries in the 1997 ‘Lilian Watson Family History Award’ will commence circulation as shown below at the next executive meeting 16 August 1997.
1997 Lilian Watson Family History Award Entries
18/8/1997 17/11/1997 23/2/1998 18/5/1998 17/8/98 14/11/1997 20/2/1998 15/5/1998 14/8/1998 20/11/98 Hobart Huon Launceston Burnie Devonport
Thereafter the books will be deposited in branch libraries as listed. Shere to Eternity, John James Meehan Hobart Branch To See the Morning, Collen Arulappu Hobart Branch The Land of Our Adoption, Leanne Baker Burnie Branch The Family of Henry Hyland, Annette M. Banks Burnie Branch The Foster-Jones Family Pedigree, Edward Arthur Jones Hobart Branch A Baker’s Dozen, Dian Elizabeth Maney & Gail Dodd Hobart Branch Eliza Beames and Robert Hunt 1831–1853, Marjorie M. Porter Launceston Branch From Soldier to Convict, Jayne Reed Burnie Branch The Plain People, Cheryl Timbury Launceston Branch
138 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 BURNIE
Accessions—Books Advocate Index 1927–1929 German Immigrants Arriving in Tasmania per America 1855, P. Harris & I. Schaffer GST Inc. Members’ Interests 1996/97 Index to Agreements between Masters of Vessels and Crews Signed on at Hobart, Tasmania 1850–1860, Colleen Read *Links—The Dudman Family, Vernice Dudman *Names of all Tasmanian Personnel who lost their lives from whatever cause in World War 2 O’Shea Index to The Mercury Births 1921–1930 *Penguin & South Riana Cemeteries Pubs in Hobart from 1807, David J. Bryce St Mary’s Hospital, Hobart, Index to Registers 1841–1862, Joyce Purtscher * Indicates items donated
DEVONPORT
Accessions—Books A History of Campbell Town ‘The Children of Erin’, Geoff Duncombe Bendigo Regional Genealogical Society Members Interests 1996/1997 Cemeteries of Southern Tasmania Vol. 1 Woodbridge, Thelma McKay German Immigrants Arriving in Tasmania per America 1855, P. Harris & I. Schaffer How to use the Census Returns to Find Your London Family, Laurie Styles Index to Agreements between Masters of Vessels and Crews Signed on in Hobart, Tasmania 1850–1860, Colleen Read O’Shea Index to The Mercury Births 1921–1930, J. & F. O’Shea Railway Ancestors—Guide to the Staff Records of the Railway Companies of England and Wales 1822–1947, David T. Hawkings St Mary’s Hospital Hobart Index to Registers 1841–1862, J. Purtscher *Wellington College Register 1859–1984, compiled by the Old Wellington Society *Wichmann’s German Dictionary
Accessions—Fiche Biographical Index of South Australiana 1836–1885 Index to more Tasmanian Convicts–Papers re Convict Ships 1814–1845 Index to Tasmanian Convicts Miscellany 1821–1824 * Indicates items donated
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 139 HOBART
Accessions—Books Civil Registrations, Tom Wood Computers for Genealogy, Phil Young GRD 1997, Keith A. Johnson & Malcolm R. Sainty *GST Inc. Members’ Interests 1996–97 Heraldry for Family Historians, Iain Swinnerton In Search of the Nesbit Family in Edinburgh, Mark Nesbitt Index to Agreement between Masters of Vessels and Crews Signed on at Hobart, Tasmania, 1850–1860, Colleen Read *Newspapers on Microfilm January 1997, from State Reference Library O’Shea Index to The Mercury, Marriages 1921–1930 Pubs in Hobart Town from 1807, David Bryce *St Luke’s School South Hobart 1863–1949, Monica Ward St Mary’s Hospital Hobart Index to Registers 1841–1862, Joyce Purtscher Surnames Index 1851 Census Warwickshire St Martin Vol.1 Part 1 Birmingham FHS *The Pilcher Family from Foord 1808–1995, Ian D. Woolley *The Timeless Land, Eleanor Dark Using Baptism Records for Family Historians, Pauline M. Litton Using Death and Burial Records for Family Historians, Lilian Gibbens Using Marriage Records for Family Historians, Pauline M. Litton Using Merchant Ship Records for Family Historians, Peter L. Hogg Wills, Probate & Death Duty Records, Jane Cox
Accessions—Fiche *AEC Tasmania Electoral Rolls as at November 1996 *Nottinghamshire Members’ Interests Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Wills 1858–1940 *Wharfdale FHS Members’ Interests, Sally Brown Woolwich & Dist FHS Members’ Interests 1997 * Indicates items donated
140 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 LAUNCESTON
Accessions—Books *A Register of Pioneer Families Vol. 1, The 1788–1820 Pioneer Association *Bridging The Tamar, Thomas Jewell *Electoral Roll—Leven 1913 *Electoral Roll—Deloraine 1913 Cemeteries of Southern Tasmania—Woodbridge Vol. 1, by Thelma McKay Escape From Port Arthur, Ian Brand German Immigrants arriving in Tasmania per America 1855, Pat Harris & I. Schaffer Index to Agreements between Masters & Crews Signed on at Hobart 1850–1860, Colleen Read Memories of Badger Head, Joan Lyons New Zealand Cemetery Records, A list of Holdings by NZSG *Prizes, Named, Memorial & Gifted—Launceston Church Grammar School O’Shea Index to The Mercury Births 1921–1930 Pubs in Hobart from 1807, David J Bryce *Road Atlas of Great Britain & Ireland St Mary’s Hospital, Hobart, Index to Registers 1841–1862, Joyce Purtscher Short History Guide to Port Arthur 1830–1877, Alex Graeme-Evans & Michael Ross *Surname Index 1851 Census, Staffordshire. Vol. 15 West Bromwich, Part 1 BMSGH Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders 1803–1875 Vol. 2, Middle Years 1821–1836, Alex Graeme-Evans Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders 1803–1875 Vol. 3, A Passing Trade 1830–1875, Alex Graeme-Evans
Accessions—Fiche Children’s Registers of State Wards in the Colony of Victoria—Receiving House Vols 10–17, 1889–1895 Deceased Estates, NZ Gazette 1866–1900 Index to Candidates for the Vic. Police Force Part 2 1873–1893 Index to Candidates for the Vic. Police Force Part 3 1852–1893 Index to More Tasmanian Convicts—Papers re convict ships 1814–1845 held Mitchell Library, NSW Index to Tasmanians in the Vic. Police Gazette 1853–1893 Intestate Estates, NZ Gazette 1843–1869 List of Graduates—Glasgow University 1772–1897 Marriage index 1800–1837 Gloucestershire, England *Monumental Inscriptions—St Mary’s, Buckenden, Huntingdonshire 1711–1993 New Zealand Cemetery Records—1995 Supplement New Zealand Probates Vol. 1—index to pre 1900 records Passenger Lists Victoria, Australia outwards to NZ, Part 3 1866–1870 Roll of Honour cards 1914–18 War, Royal Australian Navy Roll of Honour cards 1939–45 War, Royal Australian Navy * Indicates items donated
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 141 SOCIETY SALES The GST Inc. has published the following items which are all (except the microfiche) available from branch libraries. All Mail Orders should be forwarded to the Sales and Publications Coordinator, PO Box 60 Prospect TAS 7250. Microfiche GST Inc. TAMIOT Records (p&p $2.00)...... $75.00 An index to tombstone and memorials inscriptions transcribed from cemeteries from all parts of Tasmania. Books Local and Family History Sources in Tasmania, 2nd Edition (p&p $4.20) . . . . $12.00 Our Heritage in History. Papers of the Sixth Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry, Launceston, 1991 with Supplement (p&p $7.70) Limited offer . . $10.00 Our Heritage in History: Supplement only (p&p $4.20) ...... $6.00 Van Diemen’s Land Heritage Index, Vol. 2 (p&p $4.20) ...... $10.00 Van Diemen’s Land Heritage Index, Vol. 3 (p&p $4.20) ...... $16.00 1995-1996 Members’ Interests (p&p $4.20) ...... $15.00 1996-1997 Members’ Interests (p&p $4.20) ...... $15.00
BRANCH SALES Please note that items advertised below are only available from the branches as listed and must be ordered from the address given.
DEVONPORT BRANCH SALES An Index to the Advocate, Tasmania, Personal Announcements 1990-1994 Vol. 1 Engagements, Marriages, Anniversaries ...... $25.00 Vol. 2 Births, Birthdays, Thanks ...... $30.00 Vol. 3 Deaths, In Memoriams ...... $25.00 Index to the Advocate, personal Announcements 1995 ...... $15.00 Index to the Advocate, personal Announcements 1996 ...... $15.00 North West Post Index Vol. 2 1901 1905 ...... $20.00 Family Record Binder Kit ...... $29.50 Family Record Binder ...... $19.50 Family Tree Ancestral Record ...... $7.95 Gloves (for handling photographs) ...... per pair $1.70 Pens (for writing on backs of photographs) ...... $4.00 Devonport Branch Holdings List ...... $2.00 Family Group Charts ...... $0.15 Pedigree Charts ...... $0.15 Coloured folders ...... $0.25 Plastic Pockets ...... $0.20 Mail orders should be forwarded to the Secretary PO Box 587 Devonport Tasmania 7310. Please allow extra for postage.
142 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 LAUNCESTON BRANCH SALES The Launceston Branch has the following items available for sale at its branch library. Branch Publications Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages from the Examiner newspaper:- Vol. 1 (1900–1910) ...... $20.00 Vol. 2 (1911–1920) ...... $25.00 Vol. 3 (1921–1925) ...... $18.00 Vol. 4 (1926–1930) ...... $18.00 Vol. 5 (1931–1935) ...... $25.00 Vol. 6 (1936–1940) ...... $30.00 Vol. 7 (1941–1950 Births) ...... $30.00 Vol. 8 (1941–1950 Deaths) ...... $30.00 Vol. 9 (1941–1950 Marriages) ...... $30.00 Vols 7–9 ...... $80.00 p&p for up to 4 volumes ...... $7.70 The Cornwall Chronicle: Directory of Births, Deaths and Marriages 1835–1850 (p&p $4.20) ...... $22.00 Carr Villa Memorial Park Burial Records on microfiche (p&p $2.00) . . . . . $30.00 Lilydale and Nabowla Cemetery on microfiche (p&p $2.00) ...... $17.00 Index to Passenger Arrivals and Departures from early Launceston newspapers 1829–1840 on microfiche (includes postage) ...... $50.00 Index to Passenger Arrivals and Departures from early Launceston newspapers 1829–1840 - set 2 books ($7.70 postage) ...... $70.00 Other Publications Index to Births Deaths and Marriages from early Hobart Town newspapers Vol. 1 1816–1840 ...... $25.00 Vol. 2 1841–1846 ...... $30.00 Engraved in Memory, Jenny Gill ...... $20.00 Army Records for Family Historians ...... $10.00 Lilydale: Conflict or Unity, 1914–1918, Marita Bardenhagen ...... $17.00 The Jordans of the Three Isles, Alma Ranson ...... $35.00 Mail orders should be forwarded to the Publications Officer PO Box 1290 Launceston TAS 7250. Please note that the prices of some branch publications have risen due to increased paper and photocopying costs. Prices of all branch publications are subject to change without notice.
NEW PUBLICATIONS Index to the Advocate: Personal Announcements 1995 Personal Announcements 1996 $15.00 plus p&p From Devonport Branch Sales
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 143 HOBART BRANCH SALES An abridged list of publications available for purchase from the Hobart Branch Library. Whitton Index to The Mercury BDM, 1854–1900 3 Vol. set ...... $40.00 O’Shea Index to The Mercury BDM, 1854–1900 3 Vol. set ...... $50.00 (Companion index to Whitton Index) O’Shea Index to The Mercury 1900–1910 Births ...... $12.50 O’Shea Index to The Mercury 1900–1910 Deaths ...... $18.00 O’Shea Index to The Mercury 1900–1910 Marriages ...... $20.00 O’Shea Index to The Mercury 1911–1920 Births ...... $12.50 O’Shea Index to The Mercury 1911–1920 Deaths ...... $22.50 O’Shea Index to The Mercury 1911–1920 Marriages ...... $20.00 O’Shea Index to The Mercury 1921–1930 Births ...... $24.00 O’Shea Index to The Mercury 1921–1930 Marriages ...... $24.00 Cemeteries of Southern Tasmania, Vol. 1, Woodbridge...... $10.00 Other Publications sold by Branch FFHS News and Digest (2 issues per year) ...... $4.30 Abbreviations & Acronyms in Tasmanian Genealogy (p&p $1.50) , M. Ring . . . *$5.00 Application to Queens Orphanage, Hobart, J. Purtscher ...... $14.00 Children in Queens Orphanage, Hobart 1828–1863, J. Purtscher ...... $14.00 Convict Records of VDL (p&p $1.50), M. Ring ...... *$5.00 Father Murphy’s Saddlebag Records—Catholic Baptisms in Huon 1855–1864, J. Purtscher $8.00 German Immigrants Arriving in Tasmania per America 1855, Pat Harris & I. Schaffer . $20.00 Index to Early Land Grants 1804–1823, T. McKay ...... $8.00 Index to Photographs of WW1 Servicemen and Women in Tasmanian Weekly Magazines Vol. 1 Weekly Courier, W. Knolle ...... $20.00 Vol. 2 Tasmanian Mail, W. Knolle ...... $18.00 Infants in Queens Orphanage, Hobart 1851–1863, J. Purtscher ...... $7.50 Juveniles Requiring Education in Tasmania 1821–1822, T. McKay . . . . . $5.50 More References for Tasmanian Children in Care 1826–1899, J. Purtscher . . . . $16.50 Profiles of Norfolk Islanders to VDL 1807 Vol. 1, I. Schaffer & T. McKay . . . $12.00 Profiles of Norfolk Islanders to VDL Porpoise, Vol. 2, pt 1, I. Schaffer & T. McKay . $20.00 Profiles of Norfolk Islanders to VDL Porpoise, Vol. 2, pt 2, I. Schaffer & T. McKay . $20.00 Register of Early Land Grants 1824–1832, T. McKay ...... $10.00 Sick and the Poor in Tasmania, I. Schaffer & J. Purtscher ...... $14.00 St Mary’s Hospital Hobart, Index to Registers 1841–1862, J. Purtscher . . . . $12.00 Tasmanian Children Boarded (Fostered) out 1865 J. Purtscher ...... $12.00 Tasmanian Industrial Schools and Reformatories, J. Purtscher ...... $12.00 VDL Early Marriages 1803–1830, T. McKay ...... $15.00 VDL Early Marriages 1831–1840, T. McKay ...... $20.00 Postage and packing: Single items marked *—$1.50, all other single items $2.50. Bulk orders (maximum of 6 items with packaging)—$8.40. All mail orders should be sent to Hobart Branch Library, GPO Box 640 Hobart Tasmania 7001. A more comprehensive list can be obtained from the same address. Please include postage when ordering.
144 TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 BRANCH LIBRARY ADDRESSES, TIMES AND MEETING DETAILS
BURNIE Phone: (03) 6431 7404 (Branch Secretary) Library 62 Bass Highway, Cooee (above Bass Bakery) Tuesday 11.00 a.m. 3.00 p.m. Saturday 1.00 p.m. 4.00 p.m. Meeting Branch Library, 62 Bass Highway, Cooee 8.00 p.m. on 3rd Tuesday of each month, except January and December. The library is open at 7.00 p.m. prior to meetings.
DEVONPORT Phone: (03) 6424 5328 (Mr & Mrs Harris) Library Rooms 9, 10 & 11, Days Building, Best Street, Devonport Wednesday 9.30 a.m. 4.00 p.m. Friday 9.30 a.m. 4.00 p.m. 2nd Sat. of month 1.30 p.m. 3.30 p.m. Meeting Branch Library, First Floor, Days Building, Best Street, Devonport on the last Thursday of each month, except December.
HOBART Phone: (03) 6228 3175 (Branch Secretary) Library 19 Cambridge Road, Bellerive Tuesday 12.30 p.m. 3.30 p.m. Wednesday 9.30 a.m. 12.30 p.m. Saturday 1.30 p.m. 4.30 p.m. Meeting Rosny Library, Bligh Street, Rosny Park, at 8.00 p.m. on 3rd Tuesday of each month except January and December.
HUON Phone: (03) 6264 1335 (Branch Secretary) Library Soldiers Memorial Hall, Marguerite Street, Ranelagh Saturday 1.30 p.m. 4.00 p.m. 1st Wed. of month 12.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m., 7 p.m. 9 p.m. Meeting Branch Library, Ranelagh, at 7.30 p.m. on 2nd Tuesday of each month except January.
LAUNCESTON Phone: (03) 6331 2145 (Branch Secretary) Library 2 Taylor Street, Invermay, Launceston Tuesday 10.00 a.m. 3.00 p.m. Wednesday 7.00 p.m. 9.00 p.m. Saturday 2.00 p.m. 4.00 p.m. Meeting St John’s Parish Centre, at 7.30 p.m. on 1st Tuesday of each month except January. MEMBERSHIP OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TASMANIA INC.
Membership of the GST Inc. is open to all interested in genealogy and family history, whether resident in Tasmania or not. Assistance is given to help trace overseas ancestry as well as Tasmanian.
Dues are payable each year by 1 April. Subscriptions for 1997 98 are as follows:-
Ordinary member $30.00 Joint members (2 people at one address) $40.00 Student/Pensioner/Unemployed over 6 months $20.00 Joint pensioners $28.00 Corporate members (Institute or Society) $50.00
Membership Entitlements: All members receive copies of the society’s journal Tasmanian Ancestry, published quarterly in June, September, December and March. (NB Airmail postage is extra.) Members are entitled to free access to the society’s libraries. Access to libraries of some other societies has been arranged on a reciprocal basis.
Application for Membership: Application forms may be obtained from the GST Inc. State Secretary, or a branch and be returned with appropriate dues to a branch treasurer or sent direct to the GST Inc. Treasurer, PO Box 60 Prospect Tasmania 7250. Dues are also accepted at libraries and branch meetings.
Donations: Donations to the Library Fund ($2.00 and over) are tax deductible. Gifts of family records, maps, photographs, etc. are most welcome.
Research Queries: Research is handled on a voluntary basis in each branch. Simple queries from members will be answered on receipt of a large stamped addressed envelope when membership number is quoted. For non-members a fee is charged. A list of mem- bers willing to undertake record searching on a private basis can be obtained from the society. The society takes no responsibility for such private arrangements.
Advertising: Advertising for Tasmanian Ancestry is accepted with pre-payment of $25.00 per quarter page in one issue or $75.00 for 4 issues. Further information can be obtained by writing to the journal committee at PO Box 60 Prospect TAS 7250.
ISSN 0159 0677 QUERIES
ANDERSON/ANDERSSEN Bernard and Rose Hannah ANDERSON or ANDERSSEN, arrived in Launceston about 1880 with infant son George Burnett who was born Adelaide in 1879. Children born in Tasmania were William Thomas 1881, Jane Augusta Wilson 1883, Charles 1887 (died Hamilton 1888) Bernard Oscar Gustav 1891 and Elsie May 1893. There may also have been another three children, dates of birth unknown, Alexander, boy (Charles?) and a daughter who died as a young child. Bernard was a fishmonger in Wellington Road Launceston from 1887–1906 and lived in Upton Street. The family moved to Preston Melbourne in 1906. We are searching for details of the years 1880–1887 as to where they may have lived and worked. George Burnett may have worked on a farm in the Longford/Cressy area around 1900. Any information or photos would be appreciated. Mrs Kaye Pilkington, RSD 37 Danbury Drive Riverside Launceston TAS 7250.
BASSETT/BAKER John BASSETT born 18--? married Sarah BAKER in 1840 in Launceston Tasmania. Their children were Sarah born 1841 died 1844; John born 1844 married Martha HYLAND; Sarah born 1846 died 1846; William born 1849 married Susan GOODYEAR; Maria born 1852 married Thomas LANCASTER and Samuel born 1853. It is also possible that after John’s death in 1854 Sarah remarried William COLE and had more children. Could anyone help me with some information. Please contact Annette Banks, 46 Payne Street Burnie TAS 7320 or (03) 64311 7475.
COOPER Abraham and Catherine COOPER came to Victoria from Ireland 1854, then to Tasmania. Children born Ireland; John born Wicklow 1834/5; Mary born Ireland 1836/7 married Edward COLLINS in Tasmania; Margaret born 1840/1 married Francis McIVOR and Abraham born 1843/4 married Elizabeth BROWN at Sidmouth, West Tamar. I would like to hear from any descendants of this family. Gwen Smith, 12 Warwick Place King’s Meadows Launceston TAS 7249.
DICKENSON/COOKE Robert DICKENSON born c1783 Leeds, Yorkshire England. Arrived Hobart on the Lady Ridley in 1821. Died 1843. Married Hobart to Elizabeth COOKE born c1819 , died 1900. Children: Mary Ann born 1835 married Joseph FRANCIS; Maria born 1837 married Samuel BROWN; Robert born 1840 married Eliza CORNISH and Emma born 1842 married Thomas SWIFTE. Elizabeth remarried to William DEORLING in 1848, no known issue. Any information on above appreciated. Mrs C. M. Charlton, PO Box 505 Ulverstone TAS 7315.
FITZGERALD James FITZGERALD married Ellen ROACH, Buttevant, Ireland, St Mary’s Church R.C. 2 March 1824. Family: John, baptised 7 January 1825, Ellen, baptised 14 June 1829, Patrick, baptised 17 March 1832 and Anne, baptised 4 February 1837, all at St Mary’s Church. Grandaughter Sarah Fitzgerald, baptised 1 March 1846, parents Ellen
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 i (junior) and Peter CURLEY. Would appreciate information, photos of descendants. Mrs Edna Matthews, 13 Napoleon Street Richmond TAS 7025.
FRANCIS/RICHARDSON We are attempting to find descendants of James and Emily FRANCIS. James Francis married Emily RICHARDSON at Hobart 30 November 1882. They had four children all born in Hobart. May born 1883, Edith Emily born 1885, James Henry born 1889 and Amy Archer born 1892. In 1883 James and Emily lived 11 Patrick Street. By 1885 James was the Keeper of the Hobart Baths. Post Office Directory shows they lived at the baths as caretakers until early 1900s. Any information appreciated. Rosemary Davidson, 1 Clarendon Street New Town TAS 7008.
GARVEY In September 1854 Michael GARVEY, agricultural labourer from County Clare, arrived as an assisted immigrant in Hobart on the Maitland with his wife. In December they were assigned to Mrs Lukin of Wharf House, Launceston where they remained until July 1856 when I lose track of them. I am interested to know whether this was the same Michael Garvey (father James, mother Mary BERMINGHAM) who arrived in 1856 in South Australia on the Australia. Also whether anything more is known of those eighteen months they spent in Van Diemen’s Land. Maria Brandl, 8 Roberts Street Hobart TAS 7000.
GOODGER/GOODYER Am seeking contact with relatives of Margaret Emma GOODGER/GOODYER who married Owen RIDLEY 27 February 1889 at Launceston, Tasmania. Ruth Ridley, 295 Southern Cross Drive Holt ACT 2615.
HANLY Thomas HANLY migrated to Tasmania from Doneraile, Ireland in 1855. He married Jane Louisa BARRETT in Launceston 1860. Believed to have had at least five children including Catherine Jane, William Alfred, Bridget and at least two other sons. Children born between 1861 and 1871. Any information gratefully received by: June Humphrey, 9 Tilden Place Cook ACT 2614.
HAYDEN/HAYDON Charles and Eliza married 18 April 1842 at Sorell and their children, Charlotte Elizabeth born 1851, Ellen Eliza born 1854 and Emily born 1855. Any descendants are asked to contact Susan Ford, PO Box 73 Innaloo WA 6918. (09) 4464745 (H).
HORTON/BEST Would like to make contact with the descendants of Mrs Georgina Margaret HORTON, neé BEST, late of New Town Tasmania, born c1919, died 1994 Hobart, daughter of Clem BEST and Rita WILLIAMS (my mother’s 1st cousin). She had two known children, one a daughter named Deborah Horton. Would be grateful if anybody can put me in contact with any members of this family. Mrs Nancy Campbell, 14 Parker Street Bundaberg QLD 4670.
ii TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 KERRISON/TAYLOR Leonard Lamperie KERRISON, Caroline Emma TAYLOR, married Launceston 1903, lived at Gormanston. Any descendants please contact: Aileen Armstrong, 2 Walkers Avenue Newnham TAS 7248.
KING Sydney Henry KING married Emily (Emma) TURNER at Illawarra Road church, Longford 28 October 1874. They had nine children—Matilda Ann born 1875, Albert Henry Miles born 1877, Edith Amanda born 1879, David Rockcliffe born 1882, Hubert Aubrey born 1885, Eva Elvia born 1888, Jane Emily born 1890, Sydney Clyde born 1894 and Claude Charles Jacob born 1898. Any information would be greatly appreciated by: Barry King, 1 Freeland Crescent Launceston TAS 7250 (03) 6327 3757.
LAIRD/BESTON/FAHEY Thomas (William) LAIRD married Bridget BESTON, Hobart, 10 April 1872. Children; Thomas Henry Crighton born 20 January 1873, Clara Hilda born 21 January 1875. No trace of Bridget’s death. Thomas married Kate Ann FAHEY 21 November 1883 in Launceston. Issue all born Emu Bay; May Ethel 8 March 1890, William Henry 11 August 1892, Thomas 27 July 1895 and Margaret 30 December 1897. Any information appreciated. Mrs Bet Jenvey, PO Box 614 Swan Hill VIC 3585.
MARTIN Am seeking info re my gggrandfather, John MARTIN (c1800–1870), including how he arrived in Tasmania, his parents, etc. Married Sarah YOUNG, St David’s Hobart, 20 March 1841. Six children—John (1841–1841), John (1842–1886?) married Martha BEAMS, Robert James (Jim) (1845–?) married Mary Louisa OVERELL, William Alexander (Alec) (1847–1934) married Eliza ILES, Joseph Henry (1849–1849), Joseph Henry (1852–aft 1871). Leasee of Hobart hotels, including Cornish Mount, then farmer at Brandy Bottom (Colebrook) and Glenorchy. Possible he arrived as convict per Competitor 1823, but cannot prove connection. Any info greatly appreciated. Alan Lüdeke, 157 Binney Street East Euroa VIC 3666 (03) 5795 2875.
MEDCRAFT/HEARPS Thomas MEDCRAFT married Sarah HEARPS 1858 in Launceston. Children were Caroline Jane born 1859 married Henry COLE, John born 1860 married Mary Ann DONOHUE, James Henry born 1866 married Florence Eva BARKER, Charles Henry born 1868 married Annie DONOHOO, Walter William born 1870 married Mosella COSTELLO and Robert Arthur born 1873. Any information greatly appreciated. Ruth Ridley, 295 Southern Cross Drive Holt ACT 2615.
NEWSTEAD COMPETITIONS Patricia Gryta is researching her grandfather William QUIGLEY and amongst the family ‘treasures’ is a copper or bronze coloured medallion which belonged to him. The size of a twenty or fifty cent piece, it’s circular with a hole through the centre in which there’s a ball. It has the words ‘NEWSTEAD COMPETITIONS 1906’ on the front while the reverse has ‘Presented by Sutton’. William Quigley came from
TASMANIAN ANCESTRY September 1997 iii America and is thought to have jumped ship in Stanley about 1900, enlisted in the army at Kingston and moved to the Claremont area c1913 where he worked for the Fehlberg family. Any information, particularly about the medal, would be appreciated. Patricia Gryta, 243 Carella Street Howrah TAS 7018.
PRICE Robert PRICE arrived Swan River WA 1829 with the HENTY family from Tarring, Essex. Subsequently moved to Launceston and married Hannah HILLS in 1833. Their son Robert Henry Price was mayor of Launceston in 1894. Any information on R. Price and H. Hills would be appreciated. John Robertson, 8 Richmond Parade Sandy Bay TAS 7005 (03) 6225 1702.
SMITH/GORE Charles SMITH born c1819 London, married Ruth GORE born c1820 London. They came to Hobart on the ship Orleana in 1842. Children: Eliza born 1841 London married 1861 Hobart to George CHAFFEY; Mary born 1847 Hobart married 1870 Hobart to Edward DEAN. Any information on above appreciated. Mrs C. M. Charlton, PO Box 505 Ulverstone TAS 7315.
‘SUNNYSIDE’, Kingston TAS This property is believed to have been the home of Edward INNES (1827–1913), who was police clerk at Kingston from 1855 until 1883, and Southern Stipendiary Magistrate from 1883 until 1893. Edward and his wife Anne (nee PEACOCK 1833– 1899) are buried at St Clement’s Kingston a church with which they had a close association. The Innes family is also believed to have owned Eagle House in King Street Sandy Bay. Is ‘Sunnyside’ still in existence? Where was/is it? Does anybody know anything of its history? Contact Louise Ryan, 6 Toora Street Ivanhoe VIC 3079.
WHITE I am seeking information on descendants of Joseph WHITE born 1795–1800 England and Harriet TOZER born Devon. Joseph and Harriet were married December 1831 in Sydney. Children of that marriage were John Thomas born 1834 Sydney, Jane Campbell born 1836 Sydney, George Francis born 1837 NSW, possibly William born 1841 NSW, Louisa Ann born 1843 Sydney, Emma Maria born 1846 Hobart, Charles Henry born 1848 Hobart and Harriet Lavinia born 1851 Hobart. Related surnames include PRATT, WILL, FOUNTAIN, MEECH, ANDREWS, PATTON and JOHNSTON(E). Grateful for any information: Susan Murphy 12 Kullindi Court Bellerive TAS 7018.
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NAME PLACE TIME M’SHIP NO. ADAMS Thomas Broadwas Westminster ENG 1800 4489 ALEXANDER Joseph Wynyard TAS AUS 1830+ 4553 ALLAN YKS ENG/IRL pre 1845 4531 ARMSTRONG William Kildare VIC AUS 1858- 4498 ATKINS Dunorlan TAS AUS pre 1880 4501 ATTHOW Newton Cefn-Mawr Clwyd WLS 1800-1900 4481 AUSTEN Abraham Ramsgate KEN ENG pre 1810 4532 AUSTIN Ann Launceston TAS AUS c1840+ 4561 AYERS John Launceston TAS AUS/ENG 1850 4567 BARNES Elizabeth Zimmerman Cot CON ENG -1873 4521 BARNES James Zimmerman Cot CON ENG -1873 4521 BARTLETT Richard Westbury/Launceston TAS AUS 1858-1944 4562 BATTEN Richard DEV ENG 1829- 4498 BECK Loiusa 1833- 4498 BENNETT Annie Armagh IRL 1860-1925 4522 BERESFORD LEI ENG PRE 1820 4485 BERRESFORD LEI ENG 1820-1841 4485 BLAUBAUM Rev Melbourne VIC AUS 1870s 4544 BLEEZE Charles TAS AUS 1834-1904 4527 BOA John Franklin TAS AUS 1820-1865 4530 BOLAND David CLA IRL 1770-1870 4492 BOLAND Martin CLA IRL 1800-1910 4492 BONNEY TAS 1814-present 4564 BOON Clarence Ringarooma TAS AUS 1878-1950 4570 BOREHAM CHS ENG 1750-1850 4563 BOW John Franklin TAS AUS 1820-1865 4530 BOWES JOHN Franklin TAS AUS 1820-1865 4530 BOYD William Linlithgow WLN SCT 1750-1820 4481 BRENNAN Margaret Hobart TAS AUS 1822-1910 4550 BROAD NW Coast TAS AUS 1803-present 4564 BROOMHALL James Chester ENG 1804-1875 4551 BROOMHEAD Preston Lancaster ENG 4479 BROWN Central UK 4542 BROWN Thomas Oatlands TAS AUS 1800-1900 4484 BRYAN Thomas KIK IRL 1824- 4499 BULLOCK Robert Bradford YKS ENG pre 1841 4540 BULLOCK Robert Hobart TAS AUS 1841-1895 4540 BURKE William Westbury TAS AUS /IRL 1830- 4559 BURNS William Charles Launceston TAS AUS c1841-1904 4561 BURR TAS AUS 1840 4516 BUSCOMBE Henry Richmond TAS AUS 1828-1860 4529 BUSCOMBE James Kestell Richmond TAS AUS 1828-1860 4529 BUSCOMBE John CON ENG pre 1830 4529 BUSHBY Sarah Alice Longford TAS AUS pre 1877 4518 BUTLER Edward East Coast/Longford TAS AUS 1845+ 4518 BYATT William Launceston/Fingal TAS AUS c1824+ 4561 BYE James Stow Redon NFK ENG 1850- 4569 CAMERON William Fingal TAS AUS c1859+ 4561 CAMPTON Sydney NSW/Germany pre 1850 4500 CANN Ivatt Madingley CAM ENG 1826- 4498 CAPON ENG 1850 4567 CARROLL Longford TAS AUS pre 1907 4501 CARSON-SMITH Melbourne VIC AUS pre 1939 4501 CASH TAS AUS 1820- 4516 CASWELL Samuel c1842-1941 4497 CAVANAGH TIP IRL 1800+ 4487
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NAME PLACE TIME M’SHIP NO. CHUGG Mary TAS AUS 4541 CLARK Emma Burnham on Crouch ESS ENG 1800-1900 4522 CLARK Ivan Triabunna TAS AUS 1890- 4528 CLAY YKS ENG pre 1845 4531 CLAYTON Norah Manchester ENG/Stockport 1904-1980 4545 COLE John Launceston TAS AUS c1819-1871 4561 COLHOUN Sarah TYR IRL 1836-1896 4543 COLLIER Rupert Sydney NSW AUS 1897-1963 4471 COLLINS Thomas George 4502 CORDELL Launceston TAS/Melbourne VIC pre 1850 4500 CRAWFORD Andrew TYR IRL 1801-1877 4543 CREAGH William TAS AUS 1850- 4528 CROSS John Edward c1862-1919 4497 CROTHERS Joseph TYR IRL 1821-1864 4551 CULLEN High Ham SOM ENG pre 1840 4531 DALE Campbell Town TAS AUS pre 1858 4501 DE BONELLI 4485 DEVERELL James ? b1822 4507 DONALD Elizabeth Westbury TAS AUS 1840+ 4518 DOWN(S) North East TAS AUS pre 1850 4500 DOWNES North East TAS AUS pre 1850 4500 DOWNEY Hannah Longford TAS AUS 1822-1910 4550 DOYLE Bridget Forth TAS AUS 1846-1946 4550 EASTLEY Deloraine TAS AUS 1850-1997 4546 ELLIOT John NBL ENG 1817-1870? 4551 ELLIS Thomas Melbourne VIC AUS 1860+ 4553 EVANS LND/ENG 1800+ 4476 FIFIELD Edwin HAM ENG/WIL ENG/Swindon ENG 1841- 4496 FITZPATRICK Fitzpatricks Inn - Westbury TAS AUS 4544 FITZPATRICK John Convict? 1820? 4527 FITZPATRICK Mary TAS AUS 1856+ 4527 FITZPATRICK Roderick QUEENS Co IRL/TAS AUS b1844 4527 FOWELL NFK ENG 4477 FRENCH Peter Goulburn NSW AUS b1818? 4527 FRYETT Richard Wm c1795-1856 4497 FURLONG TAS AUS 1820- 4516 GAFFNEY COR IRL 1800+ 4487 GALLANT SFK ENG 1800+ 4487 GARDNER Henry GLS ENG 1820-1850 4518 GARDNER Henry Stanley/Wynyard TAS AUS 1850-1920 4518 GARWOOD Hobart/Campbell Town/Ross TAS AUS 1836 - 1872 4478 GILLAM George Hagley/Carrick TAS AUS 1860? 4526 GLADMAN VIC AUS/TAS AUS 1850- 4516 GOODING Andrew Campbell Town TAS AUS 1810-1880 4512 GRAVES John Woodcock Hobart TAS AUS 1800+ 4524 GREAVES James Tockholes LAN ENG b1794 4560 GREEN Mary or Jane LND ENG 1760-1860 4492 GRIFFIN Daniel Deloraine TAS AUS/IRL 1830- 4559 HALLY James TIP IRL 1827-1903 4551 HAMILTON IRL 1860+ 4552 HAMMOND William Simmons NFK ENG 1827-1880 4511 HARDY TAS AUS/IRL pre 1850 4500 HARRIS Charles John Maldon ESS ENG 1800-1900 4522 HARRIS John LND ENG 1760-1860 4492 HARRISON John Worsley Manchester ENG pre 1840 4540 HARRISON John West Tamar/Launceston TAS AUS 1840+ 4540
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NAME PLACE TIME M’SHIP NO. HASLER Joseph SFK ENG 1831-1926 4496 HATHAWAY TAS AUS 1800-1880 4563 HAWKINS Charles Port Sorell TAS AUS 1857- 4512 HAY John Huon TAS AUS 1800+ 4524 HAYES Mary Agnes Cressy TAS AUS 1850-1950 4484 HAYS John Abingdon Malmesbury WIL ENG 1800-1850 4532 HEAN Alexander Sorell TAS AUS 1800- 4509 HEFTER PRUSSIA 4477 HEINRICH GERMANY/TAS AUS 1850-present 4564 HERROD Albert Manchester ENG 1904-1949 4545 HILDER Thomas SFK ENG 1816-1984 4562 HILL Louisa Launceston TAS AUS 1850-1950 4549 HINGSTON Athol TAS AUS 4541 HOLLIDAY OXF ENG 1800+ 4476 HOLMAN Thomas Croze CON ENG b1842 4507 HOOLE John Caton LAN ENG b1804 4560 HORTIN/HORTON Franklin TAS AUS 1800-1900 4514 HOWARD Springfield ESS ENG 1770-1850 4515 HOWE John Katri INDIA 1850-1920 4511 HOWLET TAS AUS 1800-1880 4563 HUGHES Richard Hobart TAS AUS 1810-1900 4550 IVES male Launceston TAS AUS 5/3/1846 4513 JAMES Thomas CON ENG 1840-1875 4481 JEFFREY James Hobart TAS AUS/SCT 1800+ 4478 JOHNSON Thomas ? b1839 4507 JONES James Lewisham TAS AUS 1819-1883 4511 JONES John ENG 1830- 4569 JORDAN Jessie Cecilia Perth TAS AUS 1888-1975 4512 KILPATRICK James ENG/Deloraine TAS AUS 1820-1914 4562 KIRKHAM/KERKHAM Hagley/Westbury TAS AUS 1800-1900 4514 KIRKWOOD Margaret Rokewood VIC ENG 1863- 4498 KIRKWOOD William Edinburgh 4553 LAVIS High Ham SOM ENG pre 1840 4531 LAW Mary Ross TAS AUS 1853-1935 4549 LENAN/LENNON Catherine Gowrie Duff Parish of Paulstown KIK IRL 1823-1915 4523 LIPSCOMBE Fred Hobart TAS AUS 1800+ 4524 LUDEMAN Henry Hamburg 1800 4533 MACAULAY John Watt Glasgow SCT 1820- 4554 MACILREVIE ARL SCT 1700-1800 4566 MADDON Bridget ENG? 1832-1899 4527 MAHER Patrick KIK IRL 1823-1900 4523 MALLETT William James Circular Head TAS AUS 1862-1900 4549 MALONE Annie Franklin TAS AUS 1820-1865 4530 MALONE Thomas Franklin TAS AUS 4530 MANSFIELD William Bridgewater TAS AUS 1788-1852? 4558 MARSDEN TAS AUS 1820- 4516 MARTIN Adam LKS SCT 1800-1855 4489 MASTERS Joseph East Coast of ENG? pre 1850 4548 McCREARY John Longford TAS AUS 1800+ 4524 McDONALD William TAS AUS 1882-1943 4543 McGRAIL YKS ENG/IRL pre 1845 4531 McGURK Bernard Aughnacloy TYR IRL 1810-1848 4489 McKEON ALL ALL 4514 McNULTY Peter Wilmot TAS AUS 1850-1925 4549 MEDLICOTT Central UK 4542 MOIR Robert Launceston TAS AUS 1860- 4554
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NAME PLACE TIME M’SHIP NO. MOORE ARLES/BALLICKMOYLER/LAOIS IRL pre 1860 4494 MUNDAY Sophia ? b1851 4507 MURPHY Catherine Launceston TAS AUS/ENG 1850 4567 MURRAY David pre 1871 4508 MURRAY George Wallace Launceston TAS AUS b1871 4508 MURRAY Thomas Edinburgh SCT 1720-1824 4470 NALDER James Boxford BRK ENG 1808-1875 4509 NEWTON James CampbellTown TAS AUS 1850- 4559 O'DEMPSEY TIP IRL 1794+ 4487 O'MARA Catherine Deloraine TAS AUS/IRL 1830- 4559 OAKLEY James Watton ENG b1818 4507 OAKLEY John ? ENG (father of James) ? 4507 ORAM ENG 1850 4567 ORTH Frederick PRUSSIA 1832-1876 4472 OWENS Edward T GLA WLS 1851-1933 4543 PAGE Gt Missendon BRK ENG 1830-`860 4515 PARISH Frederick Bristol 4553 PAYTON LND ENG 1850-1950 4567 PEACOCK John TAS AUS 1900- 4528 PEEBLES TAS AUS 1850-1997 4546 PEGUS Peter West Indies/WA AUS/TAS AUS 1775-1853 4562 PENNICOTT Adam SSX ENG/HAM ENG 1800-1850 4484 PENNY Caroline nee NICHOLLS Exeter ENG -1849 4521 PENNY Thomas Exeter ENG -1849 4521 PITT Francis Hobart TAS AUS 1795-1874 4511 POMEROY E Stonehouse DEV ENG 1760-1810 4515 PORTER John CampbellTown TAS AUS 1830- 4559 PRICE Robert Henry SOM? ENG 1770-1860 4522 QUINN John Avoca TAS AUS c1870 4499 RAWLINGS John Emu Bay TAS AUS d1890 4560 REEVE Noah Bessingham NFK ENG 1800-1839 4470 REID James Midlothian Edinbugh SCT 1790-1863 4470 REVIE ARL SCT 1800-1860 4566 RICKETTS Mary Jane Westbury TAS AUS 1850-1910 4523 RITCHIE Thomas Perth SCT 1740-1860 4492 ROBERTS Henry Charles Ringarooma TAS AUS 1870-1957 4570 ROBERTS William James Ulverstone TAS AUS 1915- 4502 ROBERTSON James Alvie Inverness SCT 1800-1874 4558 ROWBOTTOM Launceston TAS AUS pre 1850 4500 ROYLANCE CHS ENG 1800+ 4487 RUNDLE Daniel CON ENG 1800-1868 4562 RYAN DUB IRL pre 1880 4494 RYAN William TIP IRL 1806-1888 4511 SALTMARSH Mary Launceston/Longford TAS AUS c1818+ 4561 SCOTT Alexander St Boswells SCT 1820-1896 4562 SCOTT Eliz Perth SCT 4492 SHIPTON George Campbell Town TAS AUS/ENG 1850- 4559 SIGGINS Campbell Town TAS AUS pre 1850 4501 SIGGINS Louisa CampbellTown TAS AUS 1866-? 4502 SKARDON ?LND ENG 4477 SLADE Walter Sth SOM ENG 1878-1959 4543 SMART Caroline WIL ENG 1820+ 4518 SMITH SCT 1862+ 4552 SMITH Marion Esketh TAS AUS 1875-1971 4551 SPEARMAN Bideford DEV ENG 1830-1860 4515 STACEY John Sorell TAS AUS 1782-1849 4511
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NAME PLACE TIME M’SHIP NO. STARK David Dundee SCT 1800-1824 4488 STEVENS CON ENG 4477 STINGEL Heinrich Hessen GERMANY 1830- 4569 STONE John Bristol GLS ENG b1822 4560 STONEHOUSE William 1837 4553 STUART Rebecca Cobham Hill KEN ENG 1661-1716 4547 SUMMERS Thomas Mathinna TAS AUS 1864-1912 4512 TAYLOR Elizabeth Launceston TAS AUS b1819 4560 TAYLOR Robert Queenstown TAS AUS 1890-1910 4530 TAYLOR William Longford TAS AUS 1835-1914 4549 TEMPLAR NW Coast TAS AUS 1850-present 4564 TEMPLING Ann Longford TAS AUS 1822-1910 4550 THOMAS ENG & AUS 4477 THOMSON John C 4539 TRETHEWIE TAS AUS 4541 TUNSTALL YKS/CHS ENG 1750-1840 4563 TURNER Isabel TAS AUS 1893-1960 4543 TYNDALL Joseph KIK IRL 1800-1850 4533 USHER KEN ENG 1700-1850 4563 VAUTIN Claude Theodore ENG 1756 4470 VINEY Charles Bridgewater SOM ENG 1808-1862 4512 WAIGHT Ballarat VIC AUS 1850- 4516 WALKER John Sorell TAS AUS 1800- 4509 WARD James Sorell TAS AUS 1826-1895 4512 WATTS Lisle TAS AUS pre 1954 4501 WELLS Andre Charles Teddington LND ENG 1850-1950 4550 WELSFORD LND ENG 1790-1810 4515 WELSFORD Bideford DEV ENG 1775-1805 4515 WHEELER IRL pre 1812 4531 WHITE Emma Lillian TAS AUS/VIC AUS 1840-1940 4514 WIDGER James DEV ENG 1809-1901 4551 WILLIAMS Elizabeth Bodmin CON ENG -1857 4521 WILLIAMS John Bodmin CON ENG -1857 4521 WING Central UK 4542 WOOD Henry Lewisham LND ENG pre 1900 4496 WOODS Wm James Mason Ringarooma TAS AUS 1863-1939 4549 WOODWARD William Derby YKS ENG b1802 4560 WOOLDRIDGE ENG 4477 WROUGHTON LND ENG/Bath ENG 4477 YOUNG TAS AUS 1800-1900 4514 YOUNG TAS AUS 1800-1900 4563
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4469 CANNELL Mr Nicholas K 24 Lockett St WYNYARD TAS 7325 4470 MURRAY Miss Kym A PO Box 418 WYNYARD TAS 7325 4471 HARRIS Mrs Beryl 160 Wilson St BURNIE TAS 7320 4472 HARRIS Mr James 160 Wilson St BURNIE TAS 7320 4473 RIGNEY Mr Terrence PO Box 786 BURNIE TAS 7320 4474 LAKE Ms Judith 24 West Mooreville Rd BURNIE TAS 7320 4475 WITHINGTON Mrs Yvonne E 24 Kaoota Rd ROSE BAY TAS 7015 4476 TUCKER Mrs Winifred 1/13 Croesus Crt LINDISFARNE TAS 7015 4477 HEFTER Mrs Patricia A 21 Mawhera Ave SANDY BAY TAS 7005 4478 JEFFERY Mrs Patricia A PO Box 1346 LINDISFARNE TAS 7015 4479 BURTON Mr Ronald C 38 Bay Rd NEW TOWN TAS 7008 4480 HARRISON Mr Anthony J 19 Firth Rd LENAH VALLEY TAS 7008 4481 JAMES Mr John O 10 Ellington Rd SANDY BAY TAS 7005 4482 HUDSON Mrs Betty 123 Derwent Ave LINDISFARNE TAS 7015 4483 HUDSON Mr Frederick L 123 Derwent Ave LINDISFARNE TAS 7015 4484 PENNICOTT Mr Ian T 7 Adelphi Rd CLAREMONT TAS 7011 4485 SHIELDS Mrs E (Beth) J 22 Fairfield Rd GEILSTON BAY TAS 7015 4486 REIDY Ms Elizabeth H 19 Alexandra Esp BELLERIVE TAS 7018 4487 ROYLANCE Mrs Robyn M GPO Box 1111 HOBART TAS 7000 4488 STARK Mr John B C 115 Collins St BURNIE TAS 7320 4489 STARK Mrs Keitha 115 Collins St BURNIE TAS 7320 4490 NEILSON Mrs Cherie A 52 Oldina Rd WYNYARD TAS 7325 4491 MURRAY Ms Kim Unit 8 16/24 Martin St WYNYARD TAS 7325 4492 BOLAND Mr Robert M 37 Seaview Ave BURNIE TAS 7320 4494 BLOOR Mrs Ursula J 150 Coopers Rd CHUDLEIGH TAS 7304 4495 HINGSTON Mr Barry N 76 Chapple St RAVENSWOOD TAS 7250 4496 WINTER Ms Muriel G PO Box 8 NEWSTEAD TAS 7250 4497 FRYETT Mr Richard A 'Trailee' Oaks Rd CARRICK TAS 7291 4498 BRYAN Mrs Christine R 74 Dion Cres RIVERSIDE TAS 7250 4499 BRYAN Mr Glenn M 74 Dion Cres RIVERSIDE TAS 7250 4500 NICHOLS Ms Dawn L 26 Garden Grove LAUNCESTON TAS 7250 4501 ATKINS Mrs Aileen A Unit 3/24 Vaux St W. LAUNCESTON TAS 7250 4502 ROBERTS Mrs Sharyn E 5 Goulburn St ST LEONARDS TAS 7250 4503 EVERETT Miss Sallyanne 4 Totara St RIVERSIDE TAS 7250 4504 WOOTON Mrs Lorraine 3 Ethel St SCOTTSDALE TAS 7260 4505 O'CONNOR Mr Grant PO Box 168 CLAREMONT TAS 7011 4506 O'CONNOR Mrs Sandra PO Box 168 CLAREMONT TAS 7011 4507 DEVERELL Mrs Maureen J Unit 1 22 Arden Ave DEVONPORT TAS 7310 4508 MURRAY Mr Christopher N 11 Nyora Crt DEVONPORT TAS 7310 4509 NALDER Mr Michael G 594 Moriarty Rd LATROBE TAS 7307 4510 COWAN Mr Dallas J 107 Best St DEVONPORT TAS 7310 4511 HAMMOND Mr John 28 Sydney St CLAYFIELD QLD 4011 4512 HAMMOND Mrs Marsha A 28 Sydney St CLAYFIELD QLD 4011 4513 HUGHES Mrs June L 6 Bramley Drive NORTH RINGWOOD VIC 3134 4514 McKEON Mr Barry PO Box 457 CALOUNDRA QLD 4551 4515 McKEON Mrs Shirley PO Box 457 CALOUNDRA QLD 4551 4516 WAIGHT Mr Darrell J 193 Queen St CONCORD WEST NSW 2138 4518 YEUNG Mrs Win 320 Sandy Bay Rd SANDY BAY TAS 7005 4519 WILSON Ms Annette M 16/40 Alexandra Esp BELLERIVE TAS 7018 4520 HORTON Mr John A 16/40 Alexandra Esp BELLERIVE TAS 7018 4521 STONE Mrs Janet E 130 Wentworth St SOUTH HOBART TAS 7000 4522 ROBERTSON Mr John M 8 Richmond Pde SANDY BAY TAS 7005 4523 ROBERTSON Mrs Audrey H 8 Richmond Pde SANDY BAY TAS 7005 4524 McCREARY Mr Alan R 28 Loftus St WEST MOONAH TAS 7009 4525 McCREARY Mrs Lyn 28 Loftus St WEST MOONAH TAS 7009 4526 LOGAN Mrs Carmel 33 Belau St HOWRAH TAS 7018 4527 FISHER Mrs Mary L 11 Haven Crt ROSNY TAS 7018
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4528 CLARK Mr Kevin I 42 Leura St ROSNY TAS 7018 4529 BUSCOMBE Mrs Shauna J 1384 Richmond Rd RICHMOND TAS 7025 4530 BOWES Mr William T 228 Nelson Rd MT NELSON TAS 7007 4531 BARKER Mrs Moreen K Lot 9 Shark Point Rd PENNA via SORELL TAS 7172 4532 AUSTEN Mr Brian E 440 Strickland Ave SOUTH HOBART TAS 7004 4533 AUSTEN Mrs Brian E 440 Strickland Ave SOUTH HOBART TAS 7004 4534 HAMPTON Mrs Joan 26 Beach Road LEGANA TAS 7277 4535 HOLLOWAY Mr Eugene R J PO Box 2055 LAUNCESTON TAS 7250 4536 MOORE Mr Lewis W 322 Windermere Rd WINDERMERE TAS 7252 4537 MOORE Mrs June E 322 Windermere Rd WINDERMERE TAS 7252 4538 HERDZIK Mrs Sandra M 19 Boiton Rd NORWOOD TAS 7250 4539 STUART Mrs Margaret C 41 Pyenna Ave LAUNCESTON TAS 7250 4540 FIELD Ms Merle A 89 Abels Hill Rd ST LEONARDS TAS 7250 4541 HINGSTON Mr Colin A 5 Kertch Rd ST LEONARDS TAS 7250 4542 HINGSTON Mrs Lesley M 5 Kertch Rd ST LEONARDS TAS 7250 4543 MILLIN Mrs Janette 33 Logan Rd EVANDALE TAS 7212 4544 FITZPATRICK Miss Louisa J Hagley Farm School HAGLEY TAS 7292 4545 CLEMENTS Mrs Alma B 12 Guildford Rd RIVERSIDE TAS 7250 4546 WALDRON Mrs Irene N 16 Balaclava St INVERMAY TAS 7248 4547 CAMPBELL Mrs Barbara M 3728 Waterhouse Rd via BRIDPORT TAS 7262 4548 CAMPBELL Mr Stuart R 3728 Waterhouse Rd via BRIDPORT TAS 7262 4549 MALLETT Mr Ronald A 19 Eyre St MAYFIELD TAS 7248 4550 MALLETT Mrs Kylie J 19 Eyre St MAYFIELD TAS 7248 4551 BROOMHALL Dr Edward M J PO Box 367 LAUNCESTON TAS 7250 4552 HOWARD Mrs Mary G PO Box 151 BEACONSFIELD TAS 7270 4553 MACAULAY Mr Colin M 38 Riverside Dr RIVERSIDE TAS 7250 4554 MACAULAY Mrs Shirley E 38 Riverside Dr RIVERSIDE TAS 7250 4555 SMITH Mr Peter W 5 Florida Crt YOUNGTOWN TAS 7249 4556 GRAY Mr Michael J 270 Marriott St WESTBURY TAS 7303 4557 NEWMAN Mrs Connie 14 Box St DOVETON VIC 3177 4558 MANSFIELD Miss Pamela H 17 Sedgman St EAST BRUNSWICK VIC 3057 4559 KING Mrs Jeni PO Box 2694 GERALDTON WA 6531 4560 CROSS Mrs Cynthia J PO Box 177 KALLANGUR QLD 4503 4561 BURNS Mrs Barbara J 123 Mummery Rd MYRTLEFORD VIC 3737 4562 BARTLETT Miss Simone R 10 Drumfish Dr CURRUMBIN QLD 4223 4563 LINCOLNE Mrs Ross William RSD 16201 Crabtree Rd GROVE TAS 7109 4564 HENRICKS Rev Tony E PO Box 99 MOWBRAY TAS 7248 4565 HOWLETT Mr Carl 36 Fairnay Cres LAUNCESTON TAS 7250 4566 REVIE Mr William A 7 Lakeview Crt BLACKSTONE HEIGHTS TAS 7250 4567 PAYON Mrs Fiona H 38 Veronica Cres NORWOOD TAS 7250 4568 PAYON Mr Duncan C 38 Veronica Cres NORWOOD TAS 7250 4569 BYE Mrs Ismay L 6 Lindfield Place PROSPECT TAS 7250 4570 ROBERTS Mr Peter L 8 Notley St NEWHAM TAS 7248
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